RE: corrupting a block

  • From: Srinivasan Vasan <Vasan.Srinivasan@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: "'oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx'" <oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Tue, 1 Jun 2004 15:22:19 +0100

I'm with Mladen on this. Mailing out passwords violates the basic rule of
password management.

Cheers, 

Vasan.

-----Original Message-----
From: Mladen Gogala [mailto:mladen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] 
Sent: 01 June 2004 14:18
To: oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: corrupting a block


On 06/01/2004 07:48:05 AM, Pete Finnigan wrote:

> BBED is no longer shipped with an Oracle distribution, since 9iR2 i
> believe, it was removed as its a dangerous tool in the wrong hands.

I haven't checked, but I do understand the decision to omit it.
Nevertheless,
I strongly object to publishing passwords just like that. I may seem like a
stickler
for details and a very anal person, but this was completely unacceptable to
me.
-- 
Mladen Gogala
Oracle DBA



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