Re: Authenticate database users against Linux

"Sybrand Bakker" <postbus_at_sybrandb.demon.nl> wrote in message news:<tttglesgv6cid1_at_corp.supernews.com>...
> "Andreas Moroder" <amoroder_at_sb-brixen[nospam].it> wrote in message
> news:9rm7sj$c0o$1_at_serv1.iunet.it...
> > Hello,
> >
> > on NT i can authenticate oracle users against the NT SAM.
> > Is it possible to authenticate oracle users against pam on Linux ?
> >
> > Regards
> >
> > Andreas Moroder
> >
> > PS: if possible mail me the answer too.

> If Linux is an ordinary Unix the only thing you need to do is
> create user ops$andreas identified externally ...

I think that he is not talking about external authentification, but about GLOBAL authentification. He can use not unix account on single database server, but LDAP directory service common for all company to log on.
He has two options - global user (own schema in all databases) and schema independent user (use a shared schema). Instead of "create user ops$andreas identified externally" he must use

CREATE USER andreas IDENTIFIED GLOBALLY AS 'CN=andreas,OU=departmentx,O=sb-brixen,C=IT'

for global user.

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