Many security audits and checklists like the ones supplied by CIS or DISA STIG require locking user accounts after a number of unsuccessful login attempts. In Linux, this is usually achieved by using faillock / pam_faillock.so. Using PAM PAM (Pluggable Authentication Modules) is the flexible framework in modern Linux to customize the authentication and login […]
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Oracle 12c Multitenant: impdp fails w/ ORA-31625 and ORA-01031 because of Database Vault
Things are different in Oracle Database 12c with multitenancy option. My most recent example: I tried to import a schema (new name “NEWSCHEMA”) with datapump IMPDP and REMAP_SCHEMA into the same pluggable database it has been exported from with EXPDP immediately before (name “OLDSCHEMA”), running as SYSTEM. I’m doing things like that with DBA permissions, since […]
Oracle 11g: Password expired, account locked – unwanted!
Hi, it’s old news, but oracle 11g expires passwords after 180 days, and locks you out if you mistype your password 10 times, and most DBAs don’t like that. It’s unsecure, but for client-server-applications a locked account is no single-user-annoyance, it’s a downtime killing SLAs, nerves and – hopefully not – DBA jobs. So just […]