I don't know why they favor MS AD.
As a replacement for tnsname.ora the OID works very well.
We didn't take it because the 3 developers know how to use the tnsnames.ora, the
clients are all but 3 webbased for html, forms or reports. reports are partially
created into files than can be
what we have is an novell ldap with jave plugins used by oracle IAS to authenticate
users. we started once with OID but stayed then with novell. check it for yourself -
http://mdwis.mdw.ac.at/ - we had to run a config script that allows us to use the
novell ldap instead of OID. I don't know
Markus - Do you use Novell instead of tnsnames.ora as well as authenticating
users? We use MS AD. Any insights as to how your method could be applied to
MS AD?
Dennis Williams
DBA
Lifetouch, Inc.
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NO - not instead of tnsnames.ora. We stuck to the tnsnames.ora files.
We had it once, but this was rather tricky to get it working at that time.
Especially the uploading of certificates thet we made ourselves ...
- but we had already a solution to update the OID on a daily/hourly basis for user
Markus - Thanks for your ideas. Basically our issue isn't Oracle logins, but
Oracle connections (replacing tnsnames.ora). For us, the user doesn't
directly log into Oracle, but the application handles the login for them.
However, I was searching for an alternative to maintaining tnsnames.ora on
