Username with failed login 2005-08-15 - By Paul Drake
On 8/15/05, Mike Schmitt <mschmitt@(protected)> wrote: > > Hi All, > > I am trying to catch failed login attempts by using an after servererror > database trigger. We would like to be able to catch the username that is > being provided with these attempts, but so far I haven't had any luck. > > Is is possible to capture the name that was provided as part of the logon > attempt and record that information, or do we have to use a different > method? > > The edited trigger/proc we are using look like the following (We are using > 9.2.0.4): > >
Mike,
Instead of coding this by hand, why not just leverage the provided functionality?
SQL> show parameter audit_trail
NAME TYPE VALUE -- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- --- -- ---- --- -- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- -- audit_trail string TRUE
SQL> audit session whenever not successful;
Audit succeeded.
SQL> connect notauser/notmypass@(protected) ERROR: ORA-01017 (See ORA-01017.ora-code.com): invalid username/password; logon denied
Warning: You are no longer connected to ORACLE.
after reconnecting with a prvileged account:
1 select username, userhost, returncode 2 from dba_audit_session 3 where timestamp>sysdate-1/24 4* and username='NOTAUSER' SQL> /
USERNAME USERHOST RETURNCODE -- ---- ---- -- -- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- -- -- ---- -- NOTAUSER MYDOMAIN\MYDESKTOP 1017
hth.
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