Tag: authentication

In Part 1, we discussed the essentials of DB token-based authentication and looked at examples to set up authentication for IAM users with exclusive or shared schema mappings. In this second  part, we’ll look at use cases for setting up…

Oracle has introduced an authentication mechanism that enables Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) users to use their Identity and Access Management (IAM) credentials to access the Autonomous Databases (ADB) transparently.       Earlier, IAM credentials could be used to access…

Occasionally, clients reach out to us with authentication issues when a node is down. While this scenario shouldn’t happen in a high availability database management system (DBMS), it can if you miss a couple of very relevant lines in the…

Background Oracle Database connectivity using multi-factor (MFA) or two-factor (2FA) authentication is rather simple to set up, is supported for all Oracle Database versions and editions (including SE2) without requiring any additional licenses, and is easy to use. And Cisco…

Background A common question from Oracle customers is whether they can configure the Oracle Database to use: Two-Factor Authentication (2FA) Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA) A “Time-based One-time Password” (TOTP) code, which is usually a six-digit code generated from a hardware or…

One nice new feature of Oracle Database 18c is that schemas can be created without a password. These are called “Schema Only Accounts“. This new functionality is pretty simple and is a nice step forward that can allow administrators to…