Re: O/S Authentication & SQL*Net

In article <58k5f0$q5f_at_senator-bedfellow.MIT.EDU>, Stephen Turner <sturner_at_athena.mit.edu> writes
>What I'd like to do is to set my Oracle user ID to have a password,
>AND set O/S authentication on in the server so that when logged on
>locally to the server machine I can connect so:
>
> sqlplus /
>
>but when connecting via SQL*Net I am forced to type my password.
>
>What actually happens is that if I set a password for the Oracle
>user id, I cannot connect just using a '/' locally; and if
>I set the Oracle user to be identified externally, I cannot
>connect via SQL*Net.

Unfortunately, the ability to have both password and external authentication disappeared when v7 was introduced.

-- 
Jim Smith