Re: Turn Audit to Monitor Logins

  • From: "Jared Still" <jkstill@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: nagaraj.chk@xxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Fri, 5 Dec 2008 10:45:44 -0800

On Fri, Dec 5, 2008 at 9:27 AM, Nagaraj S <nagaraj.chk@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>
> This audit is intended to find out who logins to the user repeatedly and
> unsuccessfully that caused the account to be locked in more than one
> occasions." Please help me on this
>

A recently discovered (in one of our databases) drawback to auditing logon
sessions:

Have you every inadvertently typed your password in to the username field of
a form?

Guess what shows up in dba_audit_session.username when that is done to an
oracle
database with logon auditing enabled?

Jared Still
Certifiable Oracle DBA and Part Time Perl Evangelist

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