RE: Using Microsoft Windows 2000 Active Directory userid to logon

The only Oracle-supported method of this is to use Oracle Internet Directory ("OID"). OID has a fun feature that says it will allow full replication between it and "another" full LDAPv3 compliant server, which is odd considering that OID itself is *not* LDAPv3 compliant -- no matter what Oracle tells you (try using OID LDIF files in another LDAP server!).

I've also not been able to get OID to replicate reliably to another OID instance. It works fine for a few weeks, then chortles when some resource leak hits a limit. Oracle Support has put this to development, where it has been sitting for several months. Granted, our new sales people really seemed to put forth a lot of effort in resolving the issue, but it was just too late. We have dumped OID in favor of Sun One (iPlanet). Which means that Oracle won't support authentication or names resolution -- unless we have OID in between the DB and Sun One... <sigh>.

I like the DB, but the other Oracle products I'm not too sure about...

Rich Jesse                           System/Database Administrator
Rich.Jesse_at_qtiworld.com              Quad/Tech International, Sussex, WI USA

> -----Original Message-----
> From: John.Whelan_at_statcan.ca [mailto:John.Whelan_at_statcan.ca]
> Sent: Thursday, August 15, 2002 3:04 PM
> To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L
> Subject: Using Microsoft Windows 2000 Active Directory userid to logon
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> I have some users who use both Oracle and Microsoft SQL
> Server. They like
> the fact they don't have to type in a userid and password
> when they logon to
> SQL server, they are authenticated with their Windows logon.
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> They'd like the same thing when they logon to Oracle.
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> I seem to recall that Oracle can use the userid and password from the
> operating system but has anyone got this working under NT?
>
> Thanks John

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