Re: Athentication against passwd file.

Rami,

You can force you Oracle server to validate users against their o/s password, check your IOC guide for External Authentication, or within the Oracle Administrators Guide.
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External Authentication

When you choose external authentication for a user, the user account is maintained by Oracle, but password
administration and user authentication is performed by an external service. This external service can be the operating system or a network service, such as the Oracle Advanced Networking Option (ANO).

With external authentication, your database relies on the underlying operating system or network
authentication service to restrict access to database accounts. A database password is not used for this type of login. If your operating system or network service permits, you can have it authenticate users. If you do so, set the parameter OS_AUTHENT_PREFIX, and use this prefix in Oracle usernames. This parameter defines a
prefix that Oracle adds to the beginning of every user's operating system account name. Oracle compares the prefixed username with the Oracle usernames in the database when a user attempts to connect.
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Chris

Rami Krankurs wrote:
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> Hello
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> Does anyone know how can i authenticate oracle users against unix password file,
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> or unix-nis-passwd map ?
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> I know i can authenticate against kerberos, what about radius ?
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> I have oracle7 and oracle web server, and i want that users will be able use
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> same password in their accounts (solaris 2.6), how do i make this happen ?
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> many thanks - Ramik.
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Received on Thu Feb 11 1999 - 18:00:57 CST