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From: scottj@ncrcae.Columbia.NCR.COM (L. Scott Johnson)
Newsgroups: comp.databases
Subject: Re: Which RDBMS need setUID root?  Informix?
Summary: Try ORACLE
Keywords: Unix, Security
Message-ID: <5416@ncrcae.Columbia.NCR.COM>
Date: 28 Nov 89 12:21:05 GMT
References: <6006@cbnewsh.ATT.COM>
Reply-To: scottj@ncrcae.Columbia.NCR.COM (L. Scott Johnson)
Organization: NCR Corp., Engineering & Manufacturing - Columbia, SC
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In article <6006@cbnewsh.ATT.COM> wcs@cbnewsh.ATT.COM (Bill Stewart ) writes:
>We're trying to pick an RDBMS to do applications in a secure computer
>environment, so we need to find one that doesn't use setUID root.
>SetUID to some specific user is ok, but root is out.

ORACLE under UNIX uses setUID to user oracle.

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L. Scott


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