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beware of using;
REMOTE_OS_AUTHENT=TRUE
until you read the doco and understand the security implications of this;
also are the 'clients' you refer to on the same unix box or remote windows clients? as this would alter the approach taken
-- Regards, Daniel. "Winbatch" <winbatch_at_techie.com> wrote in message news:a7ed5e$rpk$1_at_bob.news.rcn.net...Received on Sat Mar 23 2002 - 11:51:00 CST
> Hi,
> I need some help. I have been asked to modify our 8.1.6 oracle
installation
> on solaris machine so that clients can connect based on unix username. I
> think this is called bequeath? I did some poking/asking around and I
> created a username called OPS$woba where woba is the name of the unix user
I
> want to use. I was told all I needed to do was create the user, grant it
> select and resource rights and that the user would be able to do sqlplus
> without any parameters: sqlplus /
>
> Unfortunately, this is not working. I think because I think I need to do
> something special on the server side to set this up. Could someone point
me
> in the right direction? Do I need to add a special listener of some sort?
>
> Thanks
> Winbatch
>
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