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An interesting post on Stephen's Oracle blog about SYSDBA passwords
June 29th, 2006 by Pete
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I was surfing my Oracle blogs aggregator this evening and saw Stephens post on his blog titled "Does Oracle cache the SYSDBA password?". This post if true is quite interesting and for someone with a devious mind may prove to be useful in a security / hacking context. If Oracle is caching the password file (This should be testable - is that a word? - with truss) than there could be a way to abuse that fact. Interesting post nonetheless.
