Re: security without using different usernames

[AK]

Title: RE: upgrade to AIX 5

you can create multiple roles also . So if you have schema a,b,c and they use Z as userid to login then create role_a, role_b, role_c where role_a has permissions for object in schema a and role_b has permissions for schema b  . Enable proper role at the time of startup ( embadded in client code ).   -ak               ----- Original Message ----- From: Ryan To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Sent: Tuesday, July 15, 2003 3:29 PM Subject: security without using different usernames I know this is terrible design, but the GUI was created by a software engineering group that is seperate from the database group. Its not scalable. So Im trying to come up with a more scalable method. I have no power to change their gui. It rides on the database. I have to live with it. This is not a high enough transaction database to warrant seperate instances.   We have a variety of customers. Each of them has their own versions of data. However, the schema is exactly the same. These tables can get huge, so we dont want to throw them all into the same schema.   Right now, due to the fact that the GUI has a series of logins that are the same across clients, each client has its own instance. This isnt very scalable as we get more business. We have to create another instance and ingest data to it.   Id like to find a way to get all the clients in the same instance with just different schemas and tablespaces. One thing I may have control over would be to slightly rename the executable. If you check v$session, in a client-server application the name of the product connecting to the database is recording. I can handle security based off of that.   My question is what would be the best way? Cant do synonyms for this since its the same login. I think I saw somewhere that there is a session based 'set' command where you can say use this schema. I think it was on asktom and in reference to a question about public synonyms. I cant find it. Anyone know it?   Also is it viable to base a context off of what is in v$sesion with a logon trigger? How would I 'redirect' all queries to a specific schema?   To stress, I cant change the application. Different group with different skillsets. Any suggestions?