Re: ldap authentication
- From: Jason Heinrich <jheinrich@xxxxxxxx>
- To: <stellr@xxxxxxxxxx>, oracle-l <oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 26 Aug 2005 10:15:45 -0500
The article in question is talking about logging into an application
(especially an HTMLDB application), not logging into the database. The
assumption is that the application is already connected/authenticated with
the database. The only software requirement for the LDAP authentication
then is an Oracle database with the DBMS_LDAP package, which comes with
Standard edition.
I did something like this last month as a proof-of-concept for
authenticating against our Active Directory. Basically it involves
connecting to AD as a read-only lookup user, retrieving the user's DN, then
attempting to reconnect to AD as that DN with the user-supplied password.
If the second connection worked, we return TRUE that they're authenticated.
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Jason Heinrich
Oracle Database Administrator
Pensacola Christian College
(850) 478-8496 x2509
jheinrich@xxxxxxxx
> From: Ray Stell <stellr@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Reply-To: <stellr@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Date: Fri, 26 Aug 2005 10:56:31 -0400
> To: oracle-l <oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Subject: ldap authentication
>
>
> In this howto:
>
> http://www.oracle.com/technology/products/database/htmldb/howtos/how_to_ldap_a
> uthenticate.html
>
> there is a link for "software requirements" that goes
> to /dev/null. Anybody know how this works, is advanced
> security product required? I don't see how the
> standard shared secret/net8 encryption would work.
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