But there is a security concern, if another machine with same username tap in to the network; the machine can access db since the username exist in DB.
Is there anyway to protect this?
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I have a question. Is there anyway to set up a single login on Windows XP such that the ORACLE Forms application can connect to the UNIX DB with the Windows account authentication.
Dom
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Yes, there is a security concern if your network is not physically secure and outsiders can physically add machines to your network. You can mitigate this by using domain accounts instead of local machine accounts. Then just adding a machine to your domain would not be sufficient, the intruder would have to have domain privileges to create domain accounts (and if thats the case your toast anyway). Here's an article that talks about it some.
http://www.samoratech.com/
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by: wes_wilsonPosted on 2003-01-08 at 11:04:49ID: 7688115
Enable OS Authentication on your database, then setup your user accounts to be "identified externally". After you do this, you should not enter any values for a username or password and you will be logged in as whoever you are logged onto the windows machine as. Note the Oracle account name and the windows account name must be identical, works well and is easy to do.
-Wes