Re: Question About Oracle Users

From: Giorgos Tsiamitas <gtsiam_at_gmx.net>
Date: Sun, 10 Jun 2001 12:56:27 GMT
Message-ID: <%7KU6.12$Qc1.3477@nreader1.kpnqwest.net>

"Dino Hsu" <dino1_at_ms1.hinet.net> wrote in message news:dvj4itceo2iddpqbcvrbq7scust6v6bsmb_at_4ax.com...
> Dear all,
>
> Please allow me to interrupt here. If we've created 50,000 Oracle user
> accounts in the database, isn't it better to integrate them with the
> OS user accounts? Otherwise, we will have one more set of 50,000
> accounts in the IT virtual community, in addition to Windows NT
> domain, Lotus Notes, Unix's, etc..

Yes, using OS authentication for Oracle users would improve manageability.

> However, if we do integrate them
> with the OS user accounts, can we integrate the OS user groups as
> well? Imagin there are 100 branches worldwide, 10 departments per
> branch, and 50 employees per department. Just curious how you are
> doing this? Any headaches you are suffering from?

It's not clear to me why should you need this kind of integration. Could you provide an example?

Regards,
Giorgos Received on Sun Jun 10 2001 - 07:56:27 CDT