(Excuse any ignorance of mine here - I'm not a seasoned Oracle user.) I'm attempting to use the DBMS_METADATA.GET_DDL function (in conjunction with ALL_OBJECTS or some such) to get the DDL for all of the tables in a particular schema. When I do this (either for all objects or for a single specific object) I get an ORA-31603 error ("obje...
My installation would 1. copy some files 2. some registry entries that require admin privilege e.g. HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Enum\MyRegistry What I want: 1. No entry to the control panel and yes i don't need an uninstallation. Question may arise, why I don't do it manually? Only for the admin privileged registry entr...
When calling MoveFileEx() and using MOVEFILE_DELAY_UNTIL_REBOOT for dwFlags. During the actual moving of file what privilege does it use? Thanks Kazuo! ...
I just learned that by default, Oracle does not grant the 'create session' privilege to new users. No problem, I can do that myself. Anyway, I'm curious: why would I want an Oracle user without 'create session' privilege? What can it be used for? There must be some non-obvious use. My first thought was running database jobs, but AFAIK t...
Hey everyone, I need to write a C program that will allow me to read/write files that are owned by root. However, I can only run the code under another user. I have the root password, but there are no "sudo" or "su" commands on the system, so I have no way of accessing the root account (there are practically no shell commands whatsoever...
I finished homework for a graduate course in operating systems. I got a great score and I only missed one tiny point of a question. It asked which were privileged instructions and which were not. I answered all correctly except one: Adding one register value to another I answered it was privileged but apparently it's not! How can this b...