Re: hide password for client sessions

"Howard J. Rogers" <hjr_at_dizwell.com> wrote in message news:4051a485$0$3956$afc38c87_at_news.optusnet.com.au...
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| "John Leslie" <johnleslie_at_madasafish.com> wrote in message
| news:4412dd31.0403120110.63bd27b9_at_posting.google.com...
| > For security reasons I do not want my users to specify a password to
| > an oracle user when starting an application on their PC. The
| > application connects using Oracle 9.2 client. Can I default the
| > password somewhere...in the sqlnet.ora file or somewhere?
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| > N.B. using OS authentication is not an oprion.
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please elaborate -- are your users not authenticated on the network or is there some other technical or policital issue?

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| Why? O/S authentication is, of course, nothing of the sort. O/S
| authentication for ordinary users (create user fred identified externally)
| ultimately ends up being data dictionary authentication, with Oracle
merely
| confirming that the O/S user has an entry in the data dictionary.
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| It requires no O/S setup, if that was your concern, unlike the true O/S
| authentication that exists for privileged users (connect / as sysdba),
which
| requires O/S groups and memberships of said groups to be set up correctly.
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unless you use an oracle password file ;-{ mcs

| Regards
| HJR
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Received on Fri Mar 12 2004 - 06:07:41 CST