ORA-01017 OS Authentication

Question

Hello,
I'm trying to get OS authentication to work for os (Solaris) user padss. I'm going through the steps below:
1. Create OS user padss
2. SQL> show parameter os_authent_prefix
NAME TYPE VALUE
os_authent_prefix string OPS$
3. As Oralcle OS user and sys:
CREATE USER "OPS$padss" IDENTIFIED EXTERNALLY;
GRANT CONNECT TO "OPS$padss";
Both are sucessful.
4. sqlnet.authentication_services = (NTS) in sqlnet.ora
5. log in as os user padss
6. sqlplus /
ORA-01017: invalid username/password; logon denied
Any ideas what is going wrong? I think that I've followed the steps correctly, but clearly I've missed something.
Many thanks

Answer 1

Hi,
It seems to be working fine for me
[oracle@localhost ~]$ su - oracle
Password:
[oracle@localhost ~]$ sqlplus
SQL*Plus: Release 11.1.0.6.0 - Production on Tue May 4 16:04:21 2010
Copyright (c) 1982, 2007, Oracle.  All rights reserved.
Enter user-name: / as sysdba
Connected to:
Oracle Database 11g Enterprise Edition Release 11.1.0.6.0 - Production
With the Partitioning, OLAP, Data Mining and Real Application Testing options
SQL> show parameter os
NAME                                 TYPE        VALUE
db_lost_write_protect                string      NONE
diagnostic_dest                      string      /u01/app/oracle
optimizer_index_cost_adj             integer     100
os_authent_prefix                    string      ops$
os_roles                             boolean     FALSE
remote_os_authent                    boolean     FALSE
remote_os_roles                      boolean     FALSE
timed_os_statistics                  integer     0
SQL> create user ops$oracle identified externally;
User created.
SQL> grant connect,recource to ops$oracle;
grant connect,recource to ops$oracle
ERROR at line 1:
ORA-01919: role 'RECOURCE' does not exist
SQL> grant connect,resource to ops$oracle;
Grant succeeded.
SQL> exit
Disconnected from Oracle Database 11g Enterprise Edition Release 11.1.0.6.0 - Production
With the Partitioning, OLAP, Data Mining and Real Application Testing options
[oracle@localhost ~]$ cd $ORACLE_HOME
[oracle@localhost db_1]$ cd network/
[oracle@localhost network]$ cd admin/
[oracle@localhost admin]$ vim sqlnet.ora
[oracle@localhost admin]$ sqlplus
SQL*Plus: Release 11.1.0.6.0 - Production on Tue May 4 16:06:11 2010
Copyright (c) 1982, 2007, Oracle.  All rights reserved.
Enter user-name: /
Connected to:
Oracle Database 11g Enterprise Edition Release 11.1.0.6.0 - Production
With the Partitioning, OLAP, Data Mining and Real Application Testing options
SQL> show user
USER is "OPS$ORACLE"
SQL> Contents of sqlnet.ora file
NAMES.DIRECTORY_PATH= (TNSNAMES, EZCONNECT)Please check that you are connecting with correct OS user.
Regards