Re: Authenticate users via OS or Oracle?

From: Richard Foote <richard.foote_at_bigpond.com>
Date: Sun, 28 Jul 2002 13:19:13 +1000
Message-ID: <xhJ09.45728$Hj3.138869@newsfeeds.bigpond.com>

Hi Frankie,

The advantages of using Oracle password authentication, is that you don't have to log on via the O/S to perform database operations. So if using OEM (or any other client based administration tool) is of interest, then password authentication is required.

Cheers

Richard

"Frankie Li" <earthy_at_hkicable.com> wrote in message news:e3b3b67b.0207261849.103dfe4e_at_posting.google.com...
> Dear all,
>
> I'm new to Oracle and recently I am asked whether we should create
> users and authenticate them through OS or within Oracle, based on
> security point of view.
>
> We are running Oracle 8i under AIX. As far as I can think of, using
> the "single-sign-on" approach can improve management and we can
> inheriate OS's user security features and policies (just in case if
> AIX is more powerful than Oracle in this area).
>
> Is there any other idea of pros and cons on this topic? Which one will
> be preferable in real world?
>
> Thanks for any comments in advance. :>
>
> Earthy
Received on Sat Jul 27 2002 - 22:19:13 CDT