Oracle | DBMS_XSTREAM

Oracle DBMS_XSTREAM_AUTH Version 21c

General Information

Library Note

Morgan's Library Page Header

Which has the higher priority in your organization: Deploying a new database or securing the ones you already have? Looking for a website, and resources, dedicated solely to securing Oracle databases? Check out DBSecWorx.

Purpose Grants the privileges needed by a user to be an administrator for Xstreams Optionally generates a script whose execution has the same effect.

AUTHID CURRENT_USER

Dependencies

ALL_USERS	DBMS_STANDARD	DBMS_XSTREAM_ADM_UTL
DBMS_ASSERT	DBMS_STREAMS_AUTH	DBMS_XSTREAM_AUTH_IVK
DBMS_LOGREP_UTIL	DBMS_UTILITY

Documented Yes

First Available Not Known

Security Model Owned by SYS with no privileges granted.

The documentation states that the privilege is granted to the EXECUTE_CATALOG_ROLE but a query of the data dictionary does not substantiate that claim. A revoke from EXECUTE_CATALOG_ROLE is coded into c1201000.sql.

Source {ORACLE_HOME}/rdbms/admin/dbmsxstr.sql

Subprograms

GRANT_ADMIN_PRIVILEGE	REVOKE_ADMIN_PRIVILEGE	REVOKE_REMOTE_ADMIN_ACCESS
GRANT_REMOTE_ADMIN_ACCESS

GRANT_ADMIN_PRIVILEGE

Either grants the privileges needed by a user to be an XStream administrator directly, or generates a script that grants privileges dbms_xstream_auth.grant_admin_privilege( grantee IN VARCHAR2, privilege_type IN VARCHAR2 DEFAULT '*', grant_select_privileges IN BOOLEAN DEFAULT FALSE, do_grants IN BOOLEAN DEFAULT TRUE, file_name IN VARCHAR2 DEFAULT NULL, directory_name IN VARCHAR2 DEFAULT NULL, grant_optional_privileges IN VARCHAR2 DEFAULT NULL, container IN VARCHAR2 DEFAULT 'CURRENT');

exec dbms_xstream_auth.grant_admin_privilege('UWADMIN');

GRANT_REMOTE_ADMIN_ACCESS

Enables a remote XStream administrator to perform administrative actions at the local database by connecting using a database link dbms_xstream_auth.grant_remote_admin_access(grantee IN VARCHAR2);

exec dbms_xstream_auth.grant_remote_admin_access('UWADMIN');

REVOKE_ADMIN_PRIVILEGE

Either revokes XStream administrator
privileges from a user directly, or generates a script that revokes privileges dbms_xstream_auth.revoke_admin_privilege( grantee IN VARCHAR2, privilege_type IN VARCHAR2 DEFAULT '*', revoke_select_privileges IN BOOLEAN DEFAULT FALSE, do_revokes IN BOOLEAN DEFAULT TRUE, file_name IN VARCHAR2 DEFAULT NULL, directory_name IN VARCHAR2 DEFAULT NULL revoke_optional_privileges IN VARCHAR2 DEFAULT NULL, container IN VARCHAR2 DEFAULT 'CURRENT');

exec dbms_xstream_auth.revoke_admin_privilege('UWADMIN');

REVOKE_REMOTE_ADMIN_ACCESS

Disables a remote XStream administrator dbms_xstream_auth.revoke_remote_admin_access(grantee IN VARCHAR2);

exec dbms_xstream_auth.revoke_remote_admin_privilege('UWADMIN');