Re: Q: OS auth.user - connection from PC throu

Unfortunately, they come in over SQL*Net as UNIX user "daemon" so I guess you could create an OPS$daemon, but only if you wanted absolutely *no* security, and *no* ability to differentiate incoming users.

I think it's a feature.

Sincerely,

Martin Farber
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In article AAWT9NlCl5_at_geol.spb.su, Anton V. Gruza <ant_at_geol.spb.su> () writes:
>Hi, folks!
>
>I'm sorry if my question isn't very complicated, but I can't get the clear
>decision from ORACLE guides. The task is to make the OS user authentication
>on ORACLE Unix box + the possibility to connect from PC. I've tried
>to create some OS athenticated user, set < os_authent_prefix="" >,
><remote_os_authent=true>, but I can't connect from my networked PC neither
>by "sqlplus / " nor by writing the whole Unix user name + password.
> On PC I've got PC-NFS 5.0, and Solaris 2.3 on Unix box.
>
> May be I must establish ORACLE password file by "orapwd" ?
>
> Thank for advance.
>
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Received on Wed Mar 08 1995 - 03:16:37 CET