How to get actual user name without admin rights from AD?

Question

Hi,
I have set up WebLogic Portal 8.1.2 to point to Active Directory, using ActiveDirectoryAuthenticatorMBean I'm trying to retrieve the actual user name e.g. John English. Can someone give me some advise what is the proper function to use. I tried getUserDescription but it requires AD admin rights. I can't get admin rights! Is there any workarounds?
Thank you very much.
Regards,
Damon

Answer 1

You might use GLOBAL_NAME, but the result could be not what you need. If you can login to DB server you can use "lsnrctl services" to see how the DB is registered with the listener. See this example :
SQL> sho user
USER is "TEST"
SQL> select * from v$instance;
select * from v$instance
ERROR at line 1:
ORA-00942: table or view does not exist
SQL> col GLOBAL_NAME for a60
SQL> select * from global_name;
GLOBAL_NAME
ORA9.US.ORACLE.COM
SQL> exit
Disconnected from Oracle9i Enterprise Edition Release 9.2.0.4.0 - Production
With the Partitioning, OLAP and Oracle Data Mining options
JServer Release 9.2.0.4.0 - Production
$ lsnrctl services
LSNRCTL for Linux: Version 9.2.0.4.0 - Production on 25-FEB-2008 18:21:10
Copyright (c) 1991, 2002, Oracle Corporation.  All rights reserved.
Connecting to (ADDRESS=(PROTOCOL=tcp)(PORT=1521))
Services Summary...
Service "foo" has 1 instance(s).
  Instance "ora9", status READY, has 1 handler(s) for this service...
    Handler(s):
      "DEDICATED" established:1 refused:0 state:ready
         LOCAL SERVER
The command completed successfully
$in this case "foo" is what you'd need.
Of course you can always grant SELECT ANY DICTIONARY privilege to that user....