Re: does "identified externally" work?

In article <4i6odh$arn_at_crissy.ge.com>, Donna Kray (kray.donna_at_mlink.motors.ge.com) says...
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!>Greg Kresko <kresko_at_krypton.sao.nrc.ca> wrote:
!>>I'm trying to get "create user x identified externally" to work
!>>on Oracle 7.2.3 on Solaris 2.3. I've tried accounts called
!>>"ops$x" as well as "x" with 'os_authent_prefix=""' in the
!configsid.ora
!>>file, and I keep getting prompted for account/password from sqlplus.
!>>Any hints on how to properly set this up? The manuals are rather
!vague
!>>on this topic. (If not, tell me where to find info.) Thanks.
!>>(If you want to warn me not to do this, that's fine, too.)
!>>(Next problem: default roles for externally connected accounts?)
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!>You will still continue get the username/password prompts. Just
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!>DL Kray

Unless you start:

sqlplus /
sqlforms30 /
sqlrep /

Funny, user and password are empty, but separated by '/'.

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