Becoming another user in the database is a perfect case for proxy access. You
never have to change the original user’s credentials (which in an online app
can sometimes not be an option).
Thanks,
Scott
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To: Chris Taylor <christopherdtaylor1994@xxxxxxxxx>; dimensional.dba@xxxxxxxxxxx
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Subject: Re: Passwords in DBA_USERS (Oracle 12c)
On 07/07/2016 09:16 AM, Chris Taylor wrote:
Having the password "somewhere" is important so I'm not sure if Andy is
suggesting it's absurd to have it anywhere in the database or not. But for at
least one case it's terribly important and that is supporting legacy
applications.
Sometimes you need to be able to login as an application schema to create an
object such as a materialized view or database link that is either
exceptionally difficult or impossible to do UNLESS you are logged in as the
schema owner.
The DBA may not have access to the schema password but can preserve the
password by looking at sys.user$ for the encrypted password, temporarily change
it, create the object (db link or MV), then change the password back without
ever affecting the application (or briefly affecting the application at least).
Thanks,
Chris
Yes, that was exactly the case. It was a DB link.
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Mladen Gogala
Oracle DBA
Tel: (347) 321-1217
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