Re: Trouble: authenticating through unix os

Another newbee question..
  Is there a way to provide both OS authentication and Password authentication ? For eq. if "user1" wants to access the "ops$user2"'s tables, how does he do without logging in as "ops$user2" ?

thanks,
Guna

JC wrote:
>
> On Wed, 24 Sep 1997 09:21:58 -0600, dd_at_langley.softwright.co.uk (Dean
> Dashwood) wrote:
>
> >Hi Kim!
> >
> >Your user needs to be called OPS$BLAH:
> >
> >create user ops$blah identified externally;
> >
>
> The 'ops$' prefix is just a standard that most shops use. The blank
> for the prefix should work too.
>
> The problem was this person wasn't starting sqlplus with the command
> 'sqlplus /'. The slash that signifies OS validation is the key.
 

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