Re: Oracle and LDAP

"Enterprise User" (I think) Authentication is Oracle's term for their support for LDAP based
authentication added in 8.1.6.

Supports Oracle Internet Directory and Microsoft Active Directory. Will support Novell
Directory Service in 8.1.7.

You create global schema/roles and connect LDAP authenticated users to these roles instead
of having a seperate schema for each user.

If you have access to MetaLink there is quite a few notes on the subject. Also take a look at
the Advanced Security Administrators Guide available at Technet.

Hope this helps
Jason

Will Hartung wrote:

> I know that recent versions of Oracle can be used as an LDAP server. But I'm
> interested in whether an Oracle stored procedure can be used to access an
> LDAP server?
>
> I noticed that there was some way to link user security and such to LDAP,
> but it's not clear if that will work with a generic LDAP server or just with
> Oracle.
>
> Simply put we have a system that is using DB tables for authentication, and
> applications call a stored procedure to perform the authenication. We'd like
> to migrate the user/password information to a dedicated LDAP server that
> isn't Oracle, but we want the applications interface to not change (for the
> time being).
>
> Any thoughts welcome.
>
> Thanx!
>
> Will Hartung
> (will.hartung_at_havasint.com)

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