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 DB: Automatic tracing for all sessions of a user
Hi, SQL tracing is nice to find out details about several issues. But there is no out-of-the-box solution to enable tracing for a user, only for session- or system-wide tracing. But there’s a trick to close this gap. It’s old, but stil useful: Use a logon trigger to enable tracing for all sessions of a […]