NIM005437 for No Product Found

Enhancement ID Number	NIM005437
Submitted	August 22, 2014
Last Modified	April 2, 2025
Applies to	No Product Found
Version found	9.0
Status	Non-Reproducible

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There are a number of users out there that want to use one form or
another of external authentication with Oracle. We can't
allow that for iomgr-brokered connections as it is a security risk,
since a client machine can lie about who it is. However, for direct
connect there is no such risk.

Most of the code changes are a simple matter of allowing client
programs to supply a blank user name and password. In the Oracle
dblayer, the connection logic had to be upgraded to allow external
system authentication (see db_connect()) and to make sure a user
name was fetched from the dbms (see dbinstance_io.c). The no_iomgr
flag was replaced by a connection type enum while I was in there.

Enable the use of external authentication.

Alternate Workflow

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