Connecting Using SSL Authentication Without Username and Password

Question

Hi,
We're on RedHat Linux 4.0 using 10.2.0.3 (server/client). We're trying to figure out a way to connect to the database using instantclient and JDBC-OCI and SSL authentication without using a username or password. According to the documentation this should be possible but no sample code is given.
LD_LIBRARY_PATH is set /opt/app/oracle/product/10.2.0/db_1/lib:/usr/lib:/home/oracle/instantclient where the instantclient was installed from the 10.2.0.1 client software
and we are using JDK version 1.6.0_03.
We're also referencing the following paper:
http://www.oracle.com/technology/tech/java/sqlj_jdbc/pdf/wp-oracle-jdbc_thin_ssl_2007.pdf
We've got our client and server wallets configured and the sample code we tried looks like this:
import java.sql.*;
import java.sql.*;
import java.io.*;
import java.util.*;
import oracle.net.ns.*;
import oracle.net.ano.*;
import oracle.jdbc.*;
import oracle.jdbc.pool.*;
import java.security.*;
import oracle.jdbc.pool.OracleDataSource;
public static void main(String[] argv) throws Exception {
DriverManager.registerDriver(new oracle.jdbc.driver.OracleDriver());
Security.addProvider(new oracle.security.pki.OraclePKIProvider());
System.setProperty("oracle.net.tns_admin", "/opt/app/oracle/product/10.2.0/db_1/network/admin");
String url = "jdbc:oracle:thin:@orcl";
java.util.Properties props = new java.util.Properties();
props.setProperty("oracle.net.authentication_services","(TCPS)");
props.setProperty("javax.net.ssl.trustStore",
"/opt/app/oracle/product/10.2.0/db_1/admin/wallet/server/cwallet.sso");
props.setProperty("javax.net.ssl.trustStoreType","SSO");
props.setProperty("javax.net.ssl.keyStore", "/opt/app/oracle/product/10.2.0/db_1/admin/wallet/client/cwallet.sso");
props.setProperty("javax.net.ssl.keyStoreType","SSO");
props.put ("oracle.net.ssl_version","3.0");
props.put ("oracle.net.wallet_location", "(SOURCE=(METHOD=file)(METHOD_DATA=(DIRECTORY=/opt/app/oracle/product/10.2.0/db_1/admin/wallet/client)))");
System.out.println("At Here...");
OracleDataSource ods = new OracleDataSource();
//ods.setUser("scott");
//ods.setPassword("tiger");
ods.setURL(url);
ods.setConnectionProperties(props);
System.out.println("At Here1...");
Connection conn = ods.getConnection();
System.out.println("At Here2...");
Statement stmt = conn.createStatement();
ResultSet rset = stmt.executeQuery("select 'Hello Thin driver SSL "
+ "tester ' from dual");
while (rset.next())
System.out.println(rset.getString(1));
rset.close();
stmt.close();
conn.close();
When this code is compiled and run, the following error is thrown:
Exception in thread "main" java.sql.SQLException: invalid arguments in call
at oracle.jdbc.driver.DatabaseError.throwSqlException(DatabaseError.java:112)
If a username and password is supplied, the code works. So does anyone have a working of using SSL to authenticate without supplying username/password?
Thanks
mohammed

Answer 1

Hi,
I just solved this. I noticed from another thread that I was not using the OCI driver (see below):
String url = "jdbc:oracle:thin:@pki14";
Once I changed it to:
String url = "jdbc:oracle:oci:@pki14";
The code worked perfectly. One more setting that you'll have to do is to create the user you want to connect as externally:
create user scott identified externally as
'CN=acme, OU=development, O=acme, C=US';
grant connect,create session to scott;
Note that the DN should be the same as the SSL certificate that you created in your wallet.
hth
mohammed