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Home -> Community -> Usenet -> c.d.o.misc -> Re: Trouble: authenticating through unix os
Kim Wykoff wrote:
> I'm trying to authenticate through the operating system which the
> documentation says I can do. I created a user like this:
>
> create user blah identified externally
> ...
> grant dba to blah;
>
> and I have a user blah on my unix box.
>
> I have this line in my init file:
>
> os_authent_prefix = ""
>
> and I have verified it through the 'show parameters' command in svrmgrl.
>
> When I try to login to oracle through svrmgrl or sqlplus, I get a
> password prompt. I shouldn't be getting this prompt and of course I
> can't enter a password.
Just leave the password blank, and sqlplus should let you in.
These utilities probably don't look at the account setup until after they
do their usual
prompting for username & password.
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