Re: OS Athentication

From: Kenny Gump <kgump_at_mylanlabs.com>
Date: 1999/01/22
Message-ID: <36a87627.0_at_news.mountain.net>#1/1

Check ORACLE_SID environment variable to make sure it is set correctly.

Kenny Gump
OCP 7.3 DBA

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Roger Westbrook wrote in message <36A7E3F9.A67A42B1_at_home.net>...
>I am attempting to enable OS Authentication for a few selected users and
>am having difficulties.
>
>I am running Oracle 7.3.4 on AIX 4.1.5.
>
>I've set the OS Auth prefix variable (I forget the exact var name at the
>moment but I pulled it out of the docs - even used cut and paste so I
>know it's not spelled wrong) in the init.ora for that instance. I took
>the standard "OPS$". I restarted the instance and added user "OPS$user"
>identified by external. Then, logged into the AIX as user "user", I
>tried to log into SQL*Plus (locally via telnet, not from client) like
>this... "sqlplus /" It denied access as invalid username and password.
>
>What am I missing here?
>
>Thanks in advance!
>Roger Westbrook, rogue Sys Admin
>Dollar General Corp
>
>Please reply-to rwestbrook_at_dollargeneral.com
Received on Fri Jan 22 1999 - 00:00:00 CET