Brian,
Humm, let me guess, SYSTEM right??? Some old concepts die so hard. Oracle
5 and earlier did not understand the idea of tablespaces, but had partitions
with the system partition being the original and prime one. Now one could
create other partitions, but that was 'risky' at best whereas Oracle provided a
canned way to add a datafile to the system partition!!!
Dick Goulet
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Author: "Brian McGraw" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: 7/18/2001 8:56 AM
Ah, War stories...
Reminds me (somewhat) of a company that I consulted, that had been suddently
abandoned by its DBA in November, 1999 - anyone remember the Y2K panic??
They couldn't explan the CPU slowdown and lack of IO throughput. So I went on
site, and their DBA with 5 years of experience had exactly 3 tablespaces in the
system: TEMP, RBS, and SYSTEM. System was > 2GB and was composed of about 25
datafiles. Anyone care to guess where all of the db objects lived???
It was a production system, BTW. It's nice to feel like a miracle-worker
sometimes. : )
Brian
Rachel Carmichael wrote:
> I would doubt he's joking. I've had simular experiences....
>
> transferred to another department within the same company. Get a call from
> my old boss "our dba is out sick, we HAVE to have this done today, this is a
> highly secured system you have to help and make the changes from this pc"
>
> I go there, cannot log into the database with the username and password he
> gives me. We call the dba (who was really sick), apologize and ask for the
> username and password -- same as what I had. Still does not work. I stop,
> think and say "let me try something"
>
> and log in as system/manager
>
> I do what they ask me to, then take my old boss aside and explain (gently)
> that he has a security hole in his "highly secured" system that I could
> drive a truck through.
>
> >From: paquette stephane <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> >Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> >To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> >Subject: Re: Re[2]: security problem with 8i
> >Date: Wed, 18 Jul 2001 07:25:48 -0800
> >
> >Are you joking ?
> >
> > --- [EMAIL PROTECTED] a écrit : > Although there
> >has been so much publicity of
> > > security "holes" in Oracle, in
> > > particular the listener, the one hole that really
> > > causes me concern is the
> > > default passwords for sys and system and/or using
> > > the username as a password.
> > > Over the past 2 years I've been to a few sites, like
> > > 4, at a friends request
> > > and/or on an interview where the manager said "show
> > > me" and each time I've been
> > > able to log onto the DB with any of the following:
> > >
> > > sys/change_on_install
> > > sys/sys
> > > system/system
> > > system/manager
> > >
> > > Now come on, this was an old V6 thing that we were
> > > suppose to do, and we're
> > > still not!!
> > >
> > > Dick Goulet
> > >
> > > ____________________Reply
> > > Separator____________________
> > > Author: Ray Stell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > > Date: 7/18/2001 5:15 AM
> > >
> > > On Wed, Jul 18, 2001 at 03:45:57AM -0800, Jon
> > > Walthour wrote:
> > > > Listers:
> > > >
> > > > My client has asked me to look into this issue and
> > > determine if they should
> > > > be concerned about it or not. Since they don't
> > > have any db's directly
> > > > accessible from the Internet and since their LAN
> > > is very secure anyway, I'm
> > > > inclined to not apply any patches based on the
> > > premise that if it isn't a
> > > > necessary patch, don't apply it in fear of
> > > breaking something else. What do
> > > > you think?
> > > > --
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> > > two words, disgruntled employee
> > >
> >===============================================================
> > > Ray Stell [EMAIL PROTECTED] (540) 231-4109
> > > KE4TJC 28^D
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