I think I know the answer to this, but one never knows what one doesn't
know ...
I'm the only Oracle guy in a fundamentally DB2/SQL-Server shop. As the
other DBA's are having to pick up some Oracle (and I'll have to pick up
some dB2 and SQL-Serve) and hammering on me about assigning privileges
to db user accounts. On their systems, they create users at the OS
level, assign them to groups, and grant db privileges to those groups
-- all outside the DB, it seems. I've always used roles, and have
played with OS authentication, but I've never seen anything in Oracle
that does what I understand them to be describing. Can someone with
experience in both worlds clarify for me what they are talking about
and can that really be done in Oracle using something I've never delved
in to?
Received on Thu May 04 2006 - 08:15:32 CDT
