RE: Username with failed login

  • From: "David Wendelken" <davewendelken@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: <oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Mon, 15 Aug 2005 14:59:46 -0400

I think he wants to know which user didn't log in correctly.

"NOTAUSER" won't let him know to call Marge Smith and ask her if she's just
clumsy on the keyboard or someone is trying to hack the system using her
username.

Unless "NOTAUSER" is just a dummy-value you made up for the example?

>
>Instead of coding this by hand, why not just leverage the 
>provided functionality?
>
>SQL> show parameter audit_trail
>
>NAME                                 TYPE        VALUE
>------------------------------------ ----------- 
>------------------------------
>audit_trail                          string      TRUE
>
>SQL> audit session whenever not successful;
>
>Audit succeeded.
>
>SQL> connect notauser/notmypass@mydb
>ERROR:
>ORA-01017: invalid username/password; logon denied
>
>
>Warning: You are no longer connected to ORACLE.
>
>after reconnecting with a prvileged account:
>
>  1  select username, userhost, returncode
>  2   from dba_audit_session
>  3  where timestamp>sysdate-1/24
>  4* and username='NOTAUSER'
>SQL> /
>
>USERNAME        USERHOST                       RETURNCODE
>--------------- ------------------------------ ----------
>NOTAUSER        MYDOMAIN\MYDESKTOP                      1017
>
>hth.
>
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