Oracle Advanced Security Option and Kerberos
Craig Huckabee
huck at spawar.navy.mil
Fri Feb 24 11:55:00 EST 2006
Douglas E. Engert wrote:
> Oracle has had Kerberos support for about 10 years via the Oracle Advanced
> Security Option (ASO) formally know as Oracle Advanced Networking Option.
> There are a lot of articles from 1998-2003 on using the ASO but very
> little after.
And Oracle's support staff knows very little about it as well.
> I am looking for other Kerberos sites that use Oracle with or without the ASO
> who would like to see the ASO improved. I would also be interested to know if
> you have approached Oracle on improvements, and what was their response.
>
I have contacted them on behalf of our organization, and filed bug
reports - the response has been "Yeah, that's the way it works - too
bad. No plans to fix that".
Oracle's tech support is more interested in closing the ticket quickly
than providing an actual answer or fix, IMHO.
--Craig
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