finding password for oracle tool bbed

[William Pribble]

Hello

does anyone know how to find the password for the oracle tool bbed? I have tried "strings -a bbed" but do not know where to look in the output.

Thanks for all your help

[Kari Pannila]

bbed is a tool only for Oracle Support personel.

Kari

[Nicolas Dumeige]

Just out of curiosity :
what does bbed do ?
How to get it ?

[Robert-Jan Goossens]

Hi,

BBED (Block Browser/Editor)
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1. Getting access to BBED:

BBED is shipped with Oracle8 releases, and with some Oracle7.3 releases.

On UNIX the tool needs to be built using a command of the form:

cd $ORACLE_HOME/rdbms/lib
make -f ins_rdbms.mk $ORACLE_HOME/rdbms/lib/bbed

OR to build in the bn directory:

make -f ins_rdbms.mk BBED=$ORACLE_HOME/bin/bbed $ORACLE_HOME/bin/bbed

On Windows NT a BBED.EXE is shipped as an executable and so is password
protected. This password protection is present on Unix from 8.1.6 onwards.

http://www.fors.com/velpuri2/Oracle%20block%20structure/BBED

Regards,
Robert-Jan

[William Pribble]

I am asking for our DBA who attended a course given by Steve Adams who stated that Oracle imbeds the password into the bbed binary and you can view the password with a strings command, only we do not know where within the strings output is the password. bbed allow you to see the headers of the oracle blocks from my understanding.

Thanks

[Nicolas Dumeige]

Robert-Jan

Thank you for the time you took explaining this.