RE: external authentication

Don't do it unless the application is running locally on the same physical server as the database. It is (or at least was) extremely easy to break into a system that uses external authentication across a network. (...don't ask:)  

The following example shows how to connect to the PLAY database using external authentication
$ORACLE_SID=play
$export ORACLE_SID
$sqlplus /
 

Kevin
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Sent: Wednesday, July 17, 2002 3:24 PM
To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L

Does anyone here have experience working with database that supports external authentication application users? My question is how would application know which database to connect to if there are multiple databases on the server? Does it have to be hard-coded in application? Thank you.

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