How does the Warehouse server handle a remote login in a Unix environment ?
When a Warehouse client parses a OPEN … REMOTE statement while processing a script, it uses the information contained in that OPEN statement to place a remote connection request to the Warehouse server listening on the specified remote machine. For example, open remotedb remote unixmachine user=qa password=homer & oracle scott/tiger home=/b/u01/oradata/ora sid=ora8 The Warehouse server on unixmachine thenspawns a copy of itself. The spawned Warehouse server process inherits the connection request and is sent the system user and password (in this case qa and homer) from the remote Warehouse client. The server then checks the Warehouse authorization file, AUTHFILE, to determine whether the client computer/user and server/user combination are authorized for service. If authorized, the server reads /etc/passwd to check the validity of the user and password on unixmachine. Finally, if the user is valid, the server changes the working directory to the directory listed in /etc/passwd and SE
