Re: Problems with external password store.

Does the perl script work without using the wallet?

-Mike

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From: "Howard, Chris" <[email protected]>
To: Michael Broadwater <[email protected]>; [email protected]
Sent: Mon, April 19, 2010 10:04:17 AM
Subject: RE: Problems with external password store.

TNS_ADMIN is not set in either case.

that's an alternative to the local $HOME/.sqlnet.ora file?



> -----Original Message-----
> From: Michael Broadwater [mailto:[email protected]]
> Sent: Monday, April 19, 2010 10:57 AM
> To: Howard, Chris; [email protected]
> Subject: Re: Problems with external password store.
> 
> Howard,
> 
> Please confirm that your TNS_ADMIN variable is set to the correct
> location in the perl script.
> 
> Thanks
> -Mike
> 
> ________________________________
> 
> From: "Howard, Chris" <[email protected]>
> To: [email protected]
> Sent: Mon, April 19, 2010 9:42:16 AM
> Subject: Problems with external password store.
> 
> I have two database servers, there are some differences
> between the way that perl dbd/dbi is installed on these
> machines, but both are running HP-UX and Oracle 10g.
> 
> I am trying to use external password store (oracle wallet)
> to change scripts with embedded login information to be
> more secure.
> 
> On server B, I configured oracle wallet to use the
> $HOME/.sqlnet.ora file.  It work fine with sqlplus
> and with a very simple perl script.
> 
> On server A, I configured oracle wallet the same way
> and it works fine with sqlplus, but the same
> simple perl script gives me "invalid username/password"
> errors.
> 
> I have some version differences between the two machines.
> 
> Server B is using DBI 1.601, DBD 1.16, Perl 5.8.8
> Server A is using DBI 1.43, DBD 1.16, Perl 5.8.5
> 
> I may be able to get them eventually on exactly parallel versions
> but that will take quite a bit of time and effort.
> 
> Any hope for forward progress otherwise?
> 
> Chris Howard
>