Re: Trouble: authenticating through unix os

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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