Re: O8i on Linux: identified externally

From: Fuzzy <granta_at_nospam.student.canberra.edu.au>
Date: Mon, 01 Nov 1999 22:03:58 GMT
Message-ID: <381e0e09.87503984@newshost.interact.net.au>

On 01 Nov 99 20:36:14 +0100, "Lothar Armbrüster" <lothar.armbruester_at_rheingau.netsurf.de> wrote:

>Hello out there,
>
>I cannot get the OS authentification to work on my Oracle 8i 8.1.5.0.1
>installation on Linux.
>I have a Linux user called 'la'. So I logged into Oracle as system and did
>
>create user la identified externally default tablespace ...
>grant connect to la;
>
>Now from another xterm I try the following:
>
>sqlplus la
>
>(I'm logged in as la)
>But it asks for a password. What do I do wrong? I did not find a solution
>in the docs. Do I have to set some environment variables?
>I even tried to create a Linux user 'LA' but LInux gives some strange
>results with that. Then I tried an Oracle user in lower case:
>
>create user "la" ...
>
>But it did not work either.
>
>Who can help?

Assuming you have os_authent_prefix and sqlnet.authentication_services set properly, then you just need to type

sqlplus /

to connect.

Ciao
Fuzzy
:-) Received on Mon Nov 01 1999 - 16:03:58 CST