9i DB authenticaton to OID store

  • From: "Johnson, George" <George.Johnson@xxxxxxx>
  • To: "oracle-l-freelists" <oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Fri, 15 May 2009 15:45:22 +0100

I have been tasked with getting a 9i ( 9.2.0.5 ) DB to authenticate
users through OID. Our OID is already supporting password authentication
for a load of 10g databases, so I know for a fact that the OID is
authenticating correctly. These are not full blown EUS users, just
simply password authentication for local DB users to the OID, backed by
the MS AD store.
 
    9i obviously needs to use SSL to authenticate the DB to the OID
store, to that end you create a wallet with the correct certs stored
inside.
 
    I have the wallet installed, sqlnet.ora is pointing to the wallet.
Now as the "oracle" user, who owns the binaries and started the
instance, I can successfully authenticate a user within the 9i DB to the
OID store ( additionally I can ldapbind with SSL ) so I know the wallet
is sound.
 
    Now If I attempt to perform the same test, a simple sqlplus session,
using another Unix user ID, userA on the same server, it fails with
"Open wallet failed". Now userA can see the wallet files, can see the
sqlnet.ora pointing to the wallet.Note there is no TNS involved, purely
local connections. Indeed as one more test, as advised by the various
MetaLink notes, userA can also use the wallets to perform a sucessful
ldapbind using SSL. 
 
    I currently have an Oracle Support ticket open, but I just can't
make sense of it. The wallet is sound but when sqlplus fires up for any
user other than the instance/binaries owne, it refuses to work.
 
    So I wondered, does anyone else have any experience with 9i,
wallets, DB authentication to an OID store and may have run into this
problem before? 
 
    Any suggestions are welcome!
 
    Thanks for your time.
 
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