hi, please check whether followign link gives some information http://www.itillious.com/insight/articles/OracleAuthentication.html We use host based authentication for some of the databases. Thanks! Subodh On 21 December 2010 02:50, 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. > > > Thanks > Ste > > -- > http://www.stefanocislaghi.eu > -- > //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l > > > -- ============================== DO NOT FORGET TO SMILE TODAY ==============================