How do I use OS authentication with WebLogic jDriver for Oracle and WebLogic JDBC connection pools?
I’d like to set up a WebLogic JDBC connection pool so that it uses the authentication associated with the user who is running my client application. I’m using WebLogic jDriver for Oracle. How can I do that? Due to an OCI bug, WebLogic Server does not support OS Authentication on Solaris. Other operating systems, such as HP-UX and NT, are supported. Using OS authentication in connection pools essentially means that you are using the userid of the user that started the WebLogic Server. This means that database security will rely strictly on the security of WebLogic; that is, if you are allowed to make a client connection to the WebLogic Server and access the pool, then you can get to the database. You can do this with WebLogic jDriver for Oracle because Oracle uses the process owner to determine who is attempting the connection. In the case of WebLogic JDBC, this is always the user that started the WebLogic Server. To set up your Oracle instance to use this feature, your DBA needs to fol
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