Post Installation Checks; Status Information - Oracle Database B10772-01 Administrator's Manual

Post Installation Checks

Post Installation Checks
After the installation, the following permissions must be verified in the operating
system:
To comply with FIPS 140-1 Level 2 requirements, the security policy must include
procedures to prevent unauthorized users from reading or modifying executing
Oracle Advanced Security processes and the memory they are using in the
operating system.

Status Information

Status information for Oracle Advanced Security is available after the connection
has been established. The information is contained in the RDBMS virtual table
v$session_connect_info.
Running the query
product banner information for the active connection.
of a connection configuration where both DES encryption and MD5 data integrity is
defined:
Table D–1 Sample Output from v$session_connect_info
SID AUTHENTICATION
7
7
7
7
7
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Execute permissions must be set on all Oracle Advanced Security executable
files so as to prevent execution of Oracle Advanced Security by users who are
unauthorized to do so in accordance with the system security policy.
Read and write permissions must be set on all executable files so as to prevent
accidental or deliberate reading or modification of Oracle Advanced Security
files by any user.
SELECT * from V$SESSION_CONNECT_INFO
DATABASE
DATABASE
DATABASE
DATABASE
DATABASE
OSUSER NETWORK_SERVICE_BANNER
oracle Oracle Bequeath operating system adapter for
Solaris, v8.1.6.0.0
oracle Oracle Advanced Security: encryption service for
Solaris
oracle Oracle Advanced Security: DES encryption service
adapter
oracle Oracle Advanced Security: crypto-checksumming
service
oracle Oracle Advanced Security: MD5
crypto-checksumming service adapter.
displays all of the
Table D–1 shows an example