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Oracle 10g/11g Data and Database Management Utilities

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Oracle 10g/11g Data and Database Management Utilities

Overview of this book

Does your database look complicated? Are you finding it difficult to interact with it? Database interaction is a part of the daily routine for all database professionals. Using Oracle Utilities the user can benefit from improved maintenance windows, optimized backups, faster data transfers, and more reliable security and in general can do more with the same time and resources.
Table of Contents (18 chapters)
Oracle 10g/11g Data and Database Management Utilities
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewer
Preface

The enterprise user


Managing users means the administrator will have to enrol the real user to the systems the user is authorized to access. From the user's perspective we have a single physical user who is required to log in to the different systems this user has been granted to, and who is not willing to be authenticated against each system. If the user was authenticated against each single system, sooner or later the system administrator would have a hard time trying to manage the community with a non scalable solution as either the number of users, or systems or both number of users and systems, increases.

The user is authenticated once against a centralized SSO server, and the tool to manage the user's enrolment and provisioning is the Enterprise Security Manager. This scenario assumes the existence of an Oracle Identity Management infrastructure which is available through the application server infrastructure installation.

Configuring the environment

In this example, it is assumed...