Hey Martin, AUDIT SESSION will probably do what you're looking for. Check out the Oracle® Database Security Guide from http://tahiti.oracle.com for each of your versions. Note that there's at least a few ways to setup auditing and the versions can act a little differently IIRC. HTH! GL! Rich > I want to design poor man's auditing for one single case: My user accounts are locked, and I want to log the connection attempts. But since there is no BEFORE LOGON ON DATABASE trigger (for rather obvious reasons). -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l