| Use Oracle Database on AIX with Active Directory [message #504892] |
Thu, 28 April 2011 06:56  |
Cowon_d3
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Registered: August 2008
Location: Norway
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Hi
I'm checking the possibility to use Active Directory to log on the our Oracle databases. But only for dba's and developers, not application users.
We use Oracle 10.2.0.4 (and soon 11g)
As OS on the databaseserver we use AIX5L 5.3
Is it possible to implement Active Directory on databases running on AIX ? If it is possible, what must be done to get it to work, software ... etc ?
Couldn't find exact answer anywhere else. I might be blind :-/
Thanks.
Regards,
Petter
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| Re: Use Oracle Database on AIX with Active Directory [message #505009 is a reply to message #504906] |
Thu, 28 April 2011 15:23  |
John Watson
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Registered: January 2010
Location: Global Village
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Quote:Yes it is possible Are you sure? I may be wrong, but I thought that with 11g you can't use AD directly, you have to go through Kerberos? Worth checking, Petter - it would be annoying to use 10g/AD and then have to change after upgrading to 11g.
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| Re: Use Oracle Database on AIX with Active Directory [message #505057 is a reply to message #505009] |
Fri, 29 April 2011 01:05 |
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Michel Cadot
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Registered: March 2007
Location: Saint-Maur, France, https...
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OP version is 10.2.0.4 and in this version AD is still directly accessible.
For 11g I didn't check but when we did it in 10.2 Oracle actually told us that their goal was to support only 2 interfaces: OID and OVD (Oracle Virtual Directory).
OVD was not really reliable in 10.2 (although I didn't check with 10.2.0.5), so maybe OP could work with AD in 10.2 and study a migration to OVD with his migration to 11g (I hope 11.2).
OVD is just an interface between Oracle RDBMS and other stuff that makes this other stuff looks like OID. Other stuff can be an AD or a LDAP or a RDBMS or a simple file or... There are many connectors and you can add yours.
Regards
Michel
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