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Create an alert of failed login attempt of users in Oracle database 11gR2 (11.2.0.4)

Posted by Mir Sayeed Hassan on February 19th, 2019

Create an alert of failed login attempt of users in Oracle database 11gR2 (11.2.0.4)

[oracle@testdb ~]$ !sq
sqlplus /as sysdba

sys@TESTDB> select instance_name,status,version from v$instance;

INSTANCE_NAME    STATUS       VERSION
------------------------------------------------------------
testdb                            OPEN         11.2.0.4.0

Try to create a user “MIR”

sys@TESTDB> create user mir identified by mir123;
User created.
sys@TESTDB> grant connect,resource to mir;
Grant succeeded.
sys@TESTDB> conn mir/mir123;
Connected.

Create the table to insert the error log from trigger

sys@TESTDB> create table logon_trigger(username varchar2(20),userhost varchar2(128),timestamp varchar2(40));
Table created.

Create a trigger.

create or replace TRIGGER failed_login_write_alertlog AFTER SERVERERROR ON DATABASE
DECLARE
 l_message varchar2(2000);
BEGIN
 -- ORA-1017: invalid username/password; logon denied
 IF (IS_SERVERERROR(1017)) THEN
 select 'Failed login attempt to the "'|| sys_context('USERENV' ,'AUTHENTICATED_IDENTITY') ||'" schema'
 || ' using ' || sys_context ('USERENV', 'AUTHENTICATION_TYPE') ||' authentication'
 || ' at ' || to_char(logon_time,'dd-MON-yy hh24:mi:ss' )
 || ' from ' || osuser ||'@'||machine ||' ['||nvl(sys_context ('USERENV', 'IP_ADDRESS'),'Unknown IP')||']'
 || ' via the "' ||program||'" program.'
 into l_message
 from sys .v_$session
 where sid = to_number(substr(dbms_session.unique_session_id,1 ,4), 'xxxx')
 and serial# = to_number(substr(dbms_session.unique_session_id,5 ,4), 'xxxx');
 -- write to alert log
 sys.dbms_system .ksdwrt( 2,l_message );
insert into sys.logon_trigger select sys_context('USERENV','AUTHENTICATED_IDENTITY') a ,nvl(sys_context('USERENV','HOST'),'Unknown IP') b,to_char(SYSDATE,'yyyy/mm/dd hh24:mi:ss') c  from sys .v_$session
 where sid = to_number(substr(dbms_session.unique_session_id,1 ,4), 'xxxx')
 and serial# = to_number(substr(dbms_session.unique_session_id,5 ,4), 'xxxx') and rownum=1;
END IF;
END;
/

Trigger created.

Try to attempt the failed login attempt for user “MIR”

sys@TESTDB> conn mir/aksgfklgaf

ERROR:
ORA-01017: invalid username/password; logon denied
Warning: You are no longer connected to ORACLE.

Verify

[oracle@testdb trace]$ cd /u01/app/oracle/testdb/diag/rdbms/testdb/testdb/trace/

[oracle@testdb trace]$ tail -100 alert_testdb.log

Failed login attempt to the "SYS" schema using OS authentication at 19-FEB-19 17:34:50 from oracle@testdb [10.20.0.123] via the "JDBC Thin Client" program.

Tue Feb 19 17:35:01 2019

Failed login attempt to the "MIR" schema using OS authentication at 19-FEB-19 17:35:01 from s.hassan@HASSAN-PC [10.21.121.71] via the "SQL Developer" program.

===============Hence tested & verified in our test env===============