Re: os authenticated accounts

Are you *sure* that this is "included" with Enterprise Edition? I am almost certain that I looked into exactly this feature about 6 months ago, and arrived at the conclusion that it was part of an extra-cost option.

On Wed, Mar 5, 2008 at 9:02 AM, Roman Podshivalov < roman.podshivalov_at_gmail.com> wrote:

> Joe,
>
> If you are using os authenticated account for the only reason they can
> connect like "connect /" and you are on 10g OCI client I would recommend you
> to review Oracle Secure External Password Store feature. It's covered by EE
> license. By implementing it you can hide password management from the
> application completely and provide functionality to connect to the database
> by issuing "connect /@<YOUR_DB>" syntax. Here you can find more details
> about it.
>
> http://download.oracle.com/docs/cd/B19306_01/network.102/b14266/cnctslsh.htm#i1006413
>
> --romas
>
>
> ...
>

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