Re: Database Authentication on Webserver 3.0?

It's simpler than it really seems. When you create the DAD, you UNCHECK the box that says "save password." Then in the plsql agent, you tell it the username of the DAD owner. You DON'T SET UP ANY PROTECTION SETTINGS!!!! The act of leaving the DAD password off tells it you want to use database authentication. The problem with this is that your oracle usernames and passwords are going to be sent across the network in plain text. There iis no way that I know of to use digest style encryption in combination with Oracle usernames and passwords. There is another, more sophisticated way to use database authentication in combination with database roles to give finer granularity but I have yet to persuade it to work. If this doesn't give you enough to fix your problem, send me e-mail tomorrow and I'll post some more detailed information.

Robert

On 1 Oct 1997 22:48:59 GMT, lpoon_at_Glue.umd.edu (Leon Poon) wrote:

>I have been trying to make the new authentication scheme (using Oracle
>database usernames and passwords) work on Webserver 3.0, but I am not
>having too much luck. The PDF user guide is no help and the online help
>is not that much better either. Any ideas? Basically, all I need is a
>simple working example (i.e., what I need to set in the config files, etc.)
Received on Thu Oct 02 1997 - 00:00:00 CDT