thanks! that's pretty much the way we want to use it as well, for a
universal login across any of our websites. Sun has an LDAP that we are
looking at as well. The plus is, it's free. and we don't need another
oracle license etc etc etc....
and even better, it wouldn't be MY responsibility to maintain :)
Rachel
- Jack Silvey <jack_silvey_at_yahoo.com> wrote:
> my last gig was senior DBA at an internet travel shop,
> and we used LDAP to authenticate users. Since it is
> really just a glorified list sitting in memory, it is
> perfectly suited to small, straightforward uses such
> as this.
>
> We did not use oracle LDAP, but another vendor that I
> can't remember.
>
> The LDAP was accessed by the Java processes and
> gathered the password and username from it to login to
> the database.
>
> hth,
>
> jack silvey
>
>
> --- Rachel Carmichael <wisernet100_at_yahoo.com> wrote:
> > One of the users here came to me to talk about
> > setting up user
> > authentication and wanted to know what I knew about
> > LDAP and Oracle.
> > since the sum total of my knowledge on the subject
> > consists of "Oracle
> > Internet Directory is a pain to set up" I thought I
> > might ask for
> > advice from some who are more familiar with the
> > subject.
> >
> >
> > We will have something on the order of a million
> > hits a day, this is
> > definitely ONLY user authentication. We are not
> > wedded to the idea that
> > it has to be part of Oracle, if there is another,
> > better
> > (easier/stable) way to handle this, we are open to
> > using that.
> >
> > Any suggestions on places to look? A search on LDAP
> > in the 9.2 docs got
> > me over 1300 matches... a bit overwhelming!
> >
> > I'm going to be reading through the OID admin
> > manual, but that's
> > somewhat prejudiced towards Oracle :)
> >
> > Rachel
> >
> >
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