Re: Oracle external authentication on 10g in mixed operating system environment

John H wrote:
> Hi,
> I have a mixed environment where i have a com+ application running on
> Windows 2000 using an Oracle 10g database running on Solaris, data
> access mechansim is odbc.
>
> The app is currently connecting to orcale via a connection string which
> has username annd passwors in it. Would like to take advantage of
> external authentication so not to have to specify passwords in
> connection string.
>
> What is best mechansim to make this happend? and can external
> authentication support this?
> Thanks for all info.
> I'm not a Dba!
>
> Regards
> John

Yes, but you have to allow poor security to do it. See http://download-west.oracle.com/docs/cd/B19306_01/network.102/b14266/admnauth.htm#i1006459

But keep reading on to the Global Authentication section in that manual. If you already have that sort of directory service administered by experts, there you go.

jg

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