I work a lot with Oracle and with Oracle-related (from Oracle or third party) tools. It’s my job, since I’m a DBA and also a developer that happens to be using Oracle a lot as a backend-database.
\nA lot of tools don’t know that Oracle has a feature “operating system authentication”. If you define a user in Oracle as authenticated by the OS (Windows, Unix, whatever), you basically tell Oracle: see if the OS-user trying to login is defined in Oracle, and if so, don’t ask for a password, since the user already supplied that to the OS. Think of it as MS Passport, but in a very simplistic way (but then again, it already exists more than a decade!).
\nYou tell Oracle to login as the OS-user by supplying a slash (“\/”) as username-password, basically saying “no-username\/no-password”.
\nFilling in a slash or leaving the username\/password fields empty is not recognised by many tools. They just don’t enable the OK or Connect button unless you fill in both fields.<\/p>\n
To my surprise, I got this dialog:<\/p>\n
when I tried to define a new Oracle connection in Visual Studio .NET using the just released Oracle Developer Tools for VS.NET<\/a>. WTF?!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I work a lot with Oracle and with Oracle-related (from Oracle or third party) tools. It’s my job, since I’m a DBA and also a developer that happens to be using Oracle a lot as a backend-database. A lot of tools don’t know that Oracle has a feature “operating system authentication”. If you define a […]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34,6,8,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-450","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-net","category-databases","category-development","category-oracle","category-34-id","category-6-id","category-8-id","category-19-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.switchbl8.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/450","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.switchbl8.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.switchbl8.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.switchbl8.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.switchbl8.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=450"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.switchbl8.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/450\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1402,"href":"https:\/\/www.switchbl8.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/450\/revisions\/1402"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.switchbl8.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=450"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.switchbl8.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=450"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.switchbl8.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=450"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}