Re: Database authentication and Active Directory

  • From: Ilmar Kerm <ilmar.kerm@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: Oracle L <oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Mon, 20 Dec 2010 23:47:39 +0200

On Mon, Dec 20, 2010 at 11:20 PM, Stefano Cislaghi <s.cislaghi@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I'm looking around to check if there's a solution that does not force
> me to buy Oracle Internet Directory. Problem is rather simple, I want
> to authenticate my database user against active directory.
> This want to say that user are phisically present in database and only
> password verification is done in active directory. Grants, roles and
> other properties are stored in database server.
>
> Users should be able to connect to database either from their own
> workstation with applications similar to SQLDeveloper and from third
> parties applications that does not reside on user workstation (maybe
> oracle BI).
> Metalink has no valid solution and also administrator guide does not
> provide any interesting hint. Database is 11.2 .
>
> OID is another expensive product I'm not able to buy today.

One possible solution:
http://ilmarkerm.blogspot.com/2010/08/authenticate-database-user-against.html

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