DB authentication for Reports 10g

Hi
Following is our environment
Oracle Application Server 10g (10.1.2.3.0) - Infrastructure and Middle Tier on same node.
Oracle Database 10g R2 (10.2.0.1.0)
Current Situation
We are running Forms/Reports 10g that were upgraded from 6i Client-Server environment. Everything works fine except for one major issue ie
In our reports server we have defined users with explicit grants on schema specific objects to run reports. This configuration is something I am not comfortable with.
Following is our requirement.
To somehow enable SSO keeping in mind that each DB user has his own set of privileges granted to him via either a role or explicitly. So when he is logged in once to the the application via Forms and try to run some reports, permissions on the objects(tables) called in the report should be checked on the DB level for that particular user unlike what we are doing currently ie created one main user with permissions on all schema objects.
For example
DB User xyz
Grants SELECT ON scott.emp
DB User abc (currently used in the config file of reports server)
Grants SELECT ON scott.emp, scott.dept, scott. xxx, scott.yyy etc
So in above example, in 6i environment, even if user xyz tries to run a report that requires permissions on SCOTT.DEPT table, it will not since user XYZ doesnt have permissions to view DEPT table under SCOTT schema but in 10g this XYZ user will be able to run the report successfully and would be able to view the records. This should be fixed.
Any opinion, comments, links are most welcome.
Thank you
Edited by: user560883 on Jul 27, 2009 8:59 PM

Hi
Is it the phrasing of my question or incomplete information that noone has replied to my query?
I really need some help and I'd appreciate any person who could provide some solution/workaround for this issue.
Thanks & Rgds

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