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Chapter 4 General Oracle Security

Since JUDY has the privilege with the GRANT OPTION, she can grant this to NATHAN.

SQL> connect judy/5ucc355
SQL> grant execute on sys.dbms_lock to nathan;

Now selecting the privileges for NATHAN:

select
   owner,
   table_name,
   grantor,
   privilege,
   grantable
from
   dba_tab_privs
SEE CODE DEPOT FOR FULL SCRIPT
/

OWNER      TABLE_NAME      GRANTOR    PRIVILEGE      GRA
---------- --------------- ---------- -------------- ---
SYS        DBMS_LOCK       JUDY       EXECUTE        NO

Note the GRANTOR of the privilege; it's not SYS, the owner of the package. Instead, the GRANTOR is the user who actually granted it, JUDY.

For good security, you should never have privileges granted with the GRANT OPTION. All the privileges should be given directly by the schema owner and controlled from there. The GRANT OPTION just
 

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