Alan,

> There's another nice way to do it - I use the components contributed to

IBO

> too but IBO allows a username prefix. This provides a way to prefix all my
> users so that application "owners" can only use and manage users of their
> applciation. The prefix provides a way of segregating all users into

groups.

> Therefore no need for separate security dbs.

How do you create a SYSDBA for each database? ;-)

Artur