oracle voyage worm
I wrote a mini script to protect my customer from being attacked by an “oracle voyage worm” variant : revoke CREATE DATABASE LINK from CONNECT; revoke ALL on SYS.UTL_FILE from PUBLIC; revoke ALL on SYS.UTL_HTTP from PUBLIC; revoke ALL on SYS.UTL_SMTP from PUBLIC; revoke ALL on SYS.UTL_TCP from PUBLIC; grant EXECUTE on SYS.UTL_FILE to XDB; […]
FAILED_LOGIN_ATTEMPTS part 2
Ref: part 1 I reported this lack of documentation on http://forums.oracle.com/forums/thread.jspa?threadID=330359 Here is my test case (take care, it will create a new db!) : SQL> startup force quiet nomount; ORACLE instance started. SQL> create database controlfile reuse extent management local default tablespace users default temporary tablespace temp undo tablespace undotbs1; Database created. SQL> @?/rdbms/admin/catalog […]
FAILED_LOGIN_ATTEMPTS default to 10 in 10gR2
I just noticed FAILED_LOGIN_ATTEMPTS now defaults to 10 in 10gR2. Not found in the doc. I will report it tomorrow in the documentation feedback on otn