Overview
Kerberos is a computer network security protocol that authenticates the communication of nodes over a non-secure network to prove their identity to one another in a secure manner. It uses secret-key cryptography and a trusted third party for authenticating client-server applications and verifying users' identities.
This section helps you to configure Kerberos-based authentication for proxy user/s in Oracle. Kerberos authentication allows to connect to Oracle without specifying the username / password credentials. The authentication is done externally. Proxy authentication in Oracle, allows connection to a target database username via another database user (the proxy user).
For example you can authorize a user with a development account to connect to the application owner account using his/her credentials (thus no need to expose the application user's password). This section helps to configure for Kerberos and proxy authentication: you can provide a mean to connect to any given DB user via a Kerberos-authenticated user, i.e. without specifying the password at connection time.
The section is categorized into Oracle related modifications and Portal related modifications.
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k1portal is the Kerberos username is referred. It can vary from environment to environment.
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scdb referred to as ORACLE_SID in this documentation