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 -- Ilmar Kerm -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l