The easiest way to keep them from being deleted is not to name them
.log.
Liz
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Behalf Of Neil Chandler
Sent: Monday, April 02, 2018 1:41 PM
To: mwf@xxxxxxxx
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Subject: Re: oracle binaries and datafiles
Using the ASM Filter driver can help protect against most casual admin
accidents, like dd-ing you device into oblivion, or runaway âcleanupâ
scripts - but nothing can stop a determined admin who has an experience bucket
not yet full, and a leaky luck bucket.
Neil.
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On 2 Apr 2018, at 16:50, Mark W. Farnham <mwf@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
Point well taken.
There is some value, but not real security, in forcing a sysadmin off her
meds (or simply incompletely trained) to destroy a whole mount point in that
you might at least force some conscious thought and evade trivial cleanup
shell scripts.
A determined agent with the requisite authority can destroy pretty much
anything.
mwf
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Subject: Re: oracle binaries and datafiles
The concept you described below is known as "security by obscurity". I am not
a great believer.
On 03/28/2018 04:13 PM, Justin Mungal wrote:
Tim mentioned ASM... there are many benefits to it that are mentioned
in the documentation, but it also adds protection to your database
from non-Oracle people. A system admin wanting to free up filesystem
space can't delete redo1.log if it's stored somewhere he doesn't know
how to access.
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