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Trouble understanding oracle database security module

IamHarshJan 29 2015 — edited Jan 29 2015

Hey guys,

I have some trouble understanding oracle database security module.

OS user ORACLE is a owner of RDBMS software and other users can communicate with database through this user.

But, ROOT user on OS level has complete administrative power.


So, technically we can say that root can also be a sys for database.

So, how oracle database is sure, if any user who hacked system to get root access will directly get access to database.

ex. I log into my test machin using root , and then switch to oracle user to gain access to datase.

$ su oracle

So, is there any way to prevent system administrator to gain access to database?

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