Re: Oracle Login with UNIX ID?

simplistic approach:

In unix environments, you can not obtain user passwords, with this,

let users login system with their user id & password in unix ; in their profiles run a standard oracle connection mechanism which has a standard
userid-password and accessing a table of user-id's & passwords for oracle . take password from that table and enter oracle with your script and go on,

give an option in your oracle programs to all users change their passords when they change that password, update in common account the password for that user
as well as system login password with system calls.

you should protect the account which has all user-id's and passwords. and log any changes.

don't tell anybody that you know their passwords ---

there is another one, which requires system programming, with an idea of spawning a new login process to terminals, handling received passwords to oracle if they are valid
for the system.

-please confirm from an authority any information received here before taking any action

Ching Liang wrote in message <#pl#fRyG9GA.318_at_upnetnews04>...
>I wonder if it is possible to let Oracle pick up my UNIX login ID and
>password as my Oracle login ID and password? I have a set of Pro*C
 programs
>accepting login ID and password as arguments. I like to hide those from
 the
>user. Any help is appreciated.
>
>--
>Ching Liang
>cliang_at_msn.com
>
>
Received on Wed Jan 07 1998 - 00:00:00 CST