Re: Trouble: authenticating through unix os

Since os_authent_prefix is set to "", the user should indeed be called simply "blah".

				Rick
				Network Security Products
				Oracle Corporation
				rwessman_at_us.oracle.com

dd_at_langley.softwright.co.uk (Dean Dashwood) writes:

>
> Hi Kim!
>
> Your user needs to be called OPS$BLAH:
>
> create user ops$blah identified externally;
>
> Dean
> -----------------
>
>
> In article <3427FCC5.7DD507AC_at_mail.dec.com>,
> Kim Wykoff <c-wykoff_at_mail.dec.com> wrote:
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > This is my environment:
> >
> > Digital Unix V4.0
> > Oracle 7.2.2
> >
> > 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.
> >
> > Can anyone help? Is there another step I have overlooked? Is this a
> > bug with Alpha stations?
> >
> > Thank you,
> >
> > kim
>
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  Received on Thu Sep 25 1997 - 00:00:00 CDT