Proxy user support

[ldsandon]

Does DOA support, or will support, Oracle "proxy user" feature?

 

[Marco Kalter]

There is currently no support for proxy users. We have looked at this in the past, and found it was not really stable at that time. We could re-evaluate this.

 

[ldsandon]

A colleague of mine is using proxy users in asp.net with Oracle ado.net provider and it looks to work quite well.
It was fine to authenticate users against an LDAP directory without setting up a full OID installation (that would have been overkill in our case) but still being able to use Oracle security once connected.
It would be nice to have, thank you.

 

[ldsandon]

Any plan to implement proxy user support? Now we are being requested to implement auditing and other compliance functions, and it would be a welcome addition. AFAIK the OLEDB driver supports it, I wouldn't like to be forced to switch to it.

 

[Marco Kalter]

We don't have any short term plans at the moment.

 

[DPC]

Hi - Has the ability connect via a Proxy User been implemented?

 

[Marco Kalter]

No, not yet.