I have previously published a couple of blog posts related to Kerberos authentication for databases. In this post, I want to provide a simple, step-by-step tutorial for configuring Kerberos authentication. This tutorial is based on my lab setup within Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI). Within this environment, I run both a database server and a corresponding […]
It is way too long ago since my last blog post. These were or are busy weeks for me. Any way, I finally found some time to start writing a blog post about a special setup for kerberos authentication of Oracle databases. It is about configuring kerberos authentication for multiple database servers with only one […]
Recently I’ve update the java installation of my Oracle Unified Directory (OUD) 12.2.1.0.3 to the latest release. Java 1.8.0 update 202 to be exact (p28916775_180202_Linux-x86-64.zip). Actually a piece of cake, I’ve done this a few times in the past. My Enterprise User Security (EUS) test environment is running in Docker. A container for the database […]
For one of my customers I had to analyse the log files of Oracle Unified Directory from time to time. In particular the access log file. During my research I came across the MOS note 2042620.1 and the Access Log Parsing System or short ALPS. ALPS is a small and handy tool to analyse OUD […]