RE: privileges and synonyms and dblinks

[Deshpande, Kirti]

Title: privileges and synonyms and dblinks

Matt,

 We have run in to this issue.

 There are some bugs related to this.

 Pl review docs on Metalink # 159051.1, # 144114.1.

 

- Kirti

-----Original Message-----
From: Adams, Matthew (GEA, MABG, 088130) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Wednesday, June 26, 2002 11:03 AM
To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L
Subject: privileges and synonyms and dblinks

All of a sudden this is not making sense to me.

Oracle 8.1.7.3 on HP-UX 11i

I have a public db link (link1)

I have a user (user1) who creates a PRIVATE synonym.
(user1.syn1) that points to a table on the other database
using the dblink.

User2, having ONLY the CONNECT role, cannot
do a describe of   user1.syn1, but CAN
issue a 'select * from user1.syn1' and get data
back.  I know that since the db link is public with
a account/password, he could get the data anyway by,
but what I can figure out is why it resolves the synonym
at all when it is private?

Am I missing something here?

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Matt Adams - GE Appliances - [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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