Re: oracle account suddenly change to lock???
- From: Gints Plivna <gints.plivna@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: mwf@xxxxxxxx
- Date: Sat, 21 Nov 2009 20:22:20 +0200
2009/11/21 Mark W. Farnham <mwf@xxxxxxxx>:
> do you lock accounts after a certain number of connection attempts that are
> bad?
>
> If so, this can be a symptom of a variety of denial of service attack
Sometimes it is just simple db user password change without
configuring all webservers/whatever else app servers with new
password. So they are trying to connect using old password and locking
account again and again :)
Of course assuming failed_login_attempts has been set in profiles.
Gints Plivna
http://www.gplivna.eu
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