Babette, You can still achieve the objective using SYSTEM, which does not require a SYSDBA connection. Or for that matter any user with DBA role. The trick is a new privilege named "grant any object privilege"; any user with that privilege can grant anything on objects owned by other schema. If you don't want to use SYSTEM for this, you could create a special user and grant only that system privilege directly to it.
Hope this helps. Arup Nanda ----- Original Message ----- To: "Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Sunday, August 17, 2003 9:09 PM > Tim / Peter / Michael > > Thanks for the information. I was afraid of that. > We have a patching mechanism and need to logon as > sys to grant access to sys objects for part of > the process. (to grant select on sys.dba_free_space > and execute on sys.dbms_util). > > However, the patching mechanism only does a regular > connect and not "as sysdba"--- DARN! - Will have to > change automation scripts if we upgrade ... and I was > hoping this would be easy to slide in :-( > > - Babette > > -----Original Message----- > Tim Gorman > Sent: Sunday, August 17, 2003 1:09 AM > To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L > > > It's a 9i thing, across all platforms. > > > > on 8/16/03 9:29 PM, Babette Turner-Underwood at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > > > I have created my first 9i database on OS/390 v2.10. > > > > On my Oracle 8i instance, I can connect to the database > > using: > > > > sys/[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > HOWEVER, In Oracle 9i, I cannot do this. I am FORCED > > > > to connect using: > > sys/[EMAIL PROTECTED] as sysdba > > > > I was wondering if this was a new 9i "feature" > > or if it was configurable? Or just a weird thing > > because of the mainframe environment. > > > > Comments please. > > > > Thanks in Advance > > - Babette > > -- > Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.net > -- > Author: Tim Gorman > INET: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Fat City Network Services -- 858-538-5051 http://www.fatcity.com > San Diego, California -- Mailing list and web hosting services > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To REMOVE yourself from this mailing list, send an E-Mail message > to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (note EXACT spelling of 'ListGuru') and in > the message BODY, include a line containing: UNSUB ORACLE-L > (or the name of mailing list you want to be removed from). You may > also send the HELP command for other information (like subscribing). > -- > Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.net > -- > Author: Babette Turner-Underwood > INET: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Fat City Network Services -- 858-538-5051 http://www.fatcity.com > San Diego, California -- Mailing list and web hosting services > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To REMOVE yourself from this mailing list, send an E-Mail message > to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (note EXACT spelling of 'ListGuru') and in > the message BODY, include a line containing: UNSUB ORACLE-L > (or the name of mailing list you want to be removed from). You may > also send the HELP command for other information (like subscribing). > > -- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.net -- Author: Arup Nanda INET: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fat City Network Services -- 858-538-5051 http://www.fatcity.com San Diego, California -- Mailing list and web hosting services --------------------------------------------------------------------- To REMOVE yourself from this mailing list, send an E-Mail message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (note EXACT spelling of 'ListGuru') and in the message BODY, include a line containing: UNSUB ORACLE-L (or the name of mailing list you want to be removed from). You may also send the HELP command for other information (like subscribing).