Super user accounts are, unfortunately, a necessary evil. It’s just a fact of life in the IT industry that someone, somewhere, has to have the ability to make fundamental (and therefore potentially catastrophic!) changes to key systems.

Excitement is building around an upcoming webinar hosted by Oracle Partner, AmerIndia on June 27th. Arun Mehta, Sr Consultant with @AmerIndia, and Sid Mishra from Oracle, will be speaking on the subject of Mobility in the Enterprise and the implications of BYOD has on the security postures of the organization and the steps you can take to reduce your risk. 

Sometimes you have the need for credentials (username/password) in your ADF, or other Fusion Middleware, application. I've seen numerous solutions with property files, web.xml context parameters, deployment plans, etc. Most of these run into problems with SysOps or anyone else worried with security. You don't want these credentials scattered around in plain text files and you don't want developers to know the passwords for each environment. This is better left to configuration by a sys-admin after deployment.