RE: Oracle User identified EXTERNALLY

Did you set the init.ora parameter for external authentication?

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Stephen P. Karniotis
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Sent:	Friday, September 06, 2002 12:54 PM
To:	Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L
Subject:	Oracle User identified EXTERNALLY

Hi All,

Here is the situation .

I have a Unix user called oracle on a Sun Solaris box. I created the user called ops$oracle by using the following syntax. CREATE USER OPS$ORACLE PROFILE DEFAULT IDENTIFIED     EXTERNALLY DEFAULT
    TABLESPACE USERS TEMPORARY
    TABLESPACE TEMP ACCOUNT UNLOCK;
GRANT CONNECT TO OPS$ORACLE; Now I login to Unix box as oracle(Unix user), set up the Oracle environment(ORACLE_SID, ORACLE_HOME etc). Then try to login to sqlplus but It prompts for password or it says invalid username/password.

I am under impression that I should be able to login to Oracle without specifying the Oracle password as described below. But I am not able to do so as shown below. Could you please tell me what am I missing and how can I log into oracle through the Unix user without specifying the password as it should be identified externally.

Thanks,
Ashoke

Unix> sqlplus /
SQL*Plus: Release 8.1.7.0.0 - Production on Fri Sep 6 10:40:59 2002

(c) Copyright 2000 Oracle Corporation. All rights reserved.

ERROR:
ORA-01017: invalid username/password; logon denied

Enter user-name:

I also tried
Unix> sqlplus ops\$oracle

SQL*Plus: Release 8.1.7.0.0 - Production on Fri Sep 6 10:44:27 2002

(c) Copyright 2000 Oracle Corporation. All rights reserved.

Enter password:

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