External Authentication Application and/or API

From: Bryan Hall <hallkbrdz_at_cfl.rr.com>
Date: 11 Dec 2001 11:09:04 -0800
Message-ID: <f72f5000.0112111109.50f975c9@posting.google.com>

I am running Oracle 8.1.7 on Solaris and would like to bounce the external authentication against a NT PDC. The code to do 99% of this already exists as a module in Samba, all that needs to be added is the Oracle interface.

Has anyone done this, and if so where can I get the code?

If not, can someone point me in the right direction as to the Oracle interface that is required? I believe that you somehow tell Oracle to use a certain program for extenal authentication, and that application is ran, passed the username and supplied password, and then it returns a 0 or 1. BUT... after a few hours of search on Google, I've turned up nothing on the specification for this interface. Pointers?

Thanks. I will post the completed code when finished, with complete instructions, as I'm sure someone else has a need to do this. LDAP is comming, but is still a year or two out (Air Force base).

Bryan Hall Received on Tue Dec 11 2001 - 13:09:04 CST