Implementing Security through forms/Reports

Hi
I have an application Developed in Forms.I have set of End users, who connect thru this application . I want to protect them from connecting to database apart
from this application. ie. Thry should not access data thru SQLPLUS(Client),
XLS (using odbc connections), MS access etc. But they should be able to
access data through Discoverer using their userid/password
How to achieve this??

. I want to protect them from connecting to database apart from this application. Unfortunately what you want to do is quite hard in a client server environment. The advantage of moving to web-based forms is that everything has to go through the app server, and that means users cannot get naked access to the database through SQL*plus or TOAD.
You can block SQL*Plus access using Product_user_profiles but that won't help you with ODBC.
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