Re: Identifying user externally

Hi Robert,

Is init.ora correct :

    OS_AUTHENT_PREFIX=""
    REMOTE_OS_AUTHENT=TRUE Does a regural sqlplus works : sqlplus /

Steven

Robert Chung wrote in message <357f3d5f.1503562_at_news.mindspring.com>...
>
>I am running Oracle 8 on Windows NT and cannot get external user
>identification to work. Here is what I did:
> create user user1 identified externally;
> grant connect to user1;
>
>Currently OS_AUTHENT_PREFIX is set to blank and user1 account exists
>in Windows NT. Oracle documentation does say that no special setting
>is needed for external user identification. Then, how come I am
>getting "ORA-01004: default username feature not supported; logon
>denied" when I do "connect /"? Am I doing something wrong? Thank you
>in advance.
>
>
Received on Thu Jun 11 1998 - 05:24:01 CDT