Ok, let me put it clearer... DBA's not beening allowed to have the system password. They must request it from a separate group to do changes. I am hearing of other dba's having to do this. I know we haven't only because no one suggested it yet. We are having to do some real interesting contortions to get stuff done. Brian -----Original Message----- From: oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Spears, Brian Sent: Friday, October 29, 2004 10:06 AM To: oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: Sox Pole Just wondering if Sarbanes Oxley has reduced people to getting permission for the system password each time from Operations to be able to sign into the production databases? Some real crazy stuff coming out of this. Brian -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l