need help setting up test of global users

General questions, think Oracle 9.2 and 10.2

For the last week I've been trying to read up on 'global' or
'enterprise' users, looking to play around with schema-independent
global users. This is purely an academic exercise at this point. My problem is that I've really been spinning my wheels trying to get all the specifics together. Started by searching the doc set at tahiti for 'global user'. From there went to the Administrator's Guide, which gave me a good overview, then pointed me to Database Advanced Security Administrator's Guide (broken link at tahiti, which I posted about last week), then off into some iAS docs, until I've gotten completely lost in the forest.

What I'd *like* to find is a step-by-step identifying what has to be installed and how to configure it. Most of what I've read so far hints at some of it in a larger context and gives yet another link for
'more information'. At this point I'm not interested in a lot of
bells and whistles. I just want to get a minimal setup to define and test with global users. All testing has to be on my own laptop (XP Pro, 1.6gh Pentium, 1.0gb ram).

Can someone give me a short list of what has to be done, with pointers to where I can find the necessary detail for each item?

Thanks. Received on Thu Oct 19 2006 - 15:54:13 CDT