Re: change user password for huge amount of application server

From: Niall Litchfield <niall.litchfield_at_gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 21 Feb 2011 08:29:08 +0000
Message-ID: <AANLkTimfEEsW0CKam6u+hP-FFOVSxQ6=A0bQkK2puiE8_at_mail.gmail.com>

Sounds like a use case for o/s authentication to me - or maybe proxy authentication. That said most apps I've come across use a non-changing secure password for this purpose (except for those that use a non changing insecure password :( )

On Mon, Feb 21, 2011 at 5:33 AM, Eagle Fan <eagle.f_at_gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi:
>
> We want to implement a db password change mechanism. We have a lot of
> application servers which have configuration file on local server.
>
> So if we change the password in configuration file, we need to push the new
> file to all of the application servers and it takes some time for the
> pushing. Some application servers can't login database using the old
> password during the pushing.
>
> The current workaround we can think of is to have two passwords in the
> configuration file, so the application server can try another one if the
> first one is failed.
>
> Do you have any better solution for this? Does oracle have any solution
> (ASO?) for this?
>
> Thank you in advance.
>
> --
> Eagle Fan
>

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Received on Mon Feb 21 2011 - 02:29:08 CST