Os authentication in sqldeveloper

Question

Hello,
Thanks for reading this thread.
I installed oracle enterprise edition 11gR2 at home on Centos 5.4. Os authentication works fine on the sqlplus command line, but it doesn't work in sqldeveloper : "ORA-01031: insufficient privileges".
My connection property settings are the same as at work :
Connection name : sysdba
Role : SYSDBA
Connection Type : TNS
Connect identifier : orcl
Can anybody help me on this problem?
Thanks a lot and very kind regards.
Werner

Answer 1

Hi Robert,
Sorry for the delay. I took some holidays.
To summarize and answer your questions :
1. I logged in as "oracle :
[oracle@localhost dbs]$ id oracle
uid=500(oracle) gid=501(oinstall) groups=501(oinstall),502(dba),503(oper) context=user_u:system_r:unconfined_t
2. I installed Oracle 11gR2 on Centos 5.4 by creating a database automatically.
3. I started the listener (as root)
4. Beeing logged in as oracle, I connected successfully from the sqlplus command line as SYSDBA (using operating system authentication) and started up the database :
[oracle@localhost dbs]$ sqlplus / as sysdba
SQL*Plus: Release 11.2.0.1.0 Production on Wed Dec 30 23:08:53 2009
Copyright (c) 1982, 2009, Oracle. All rights reserved.
Connected to an idle instance.
SQL> startup
ORACLE instance started.
Total System Global Area 493813760 bytes
Fixed Size 1337436 bytes
Variable Size 343934884 bytes
Database Buffers 142606336 bytes
Redo Buffers 5935104 bytes
Database mounted.
Database opened.
SQL>
5. Surprisingly, still beeing logged in as oracle, os authentication does not succeed via sqldeveloper :
My connection property settings are the same as at work :
Connection name : sysdba
Role : SYSDBA
Connection Type : TNS
Connect identifier : orcl
... and ... of course "os authentication" is checked!
At my work place, this works fine, but at home, on CentOS, I get : "ORA-01031: insufficient privileges"
6. I am doing all this beeing logged in in on the database server.
There is only an empty remote password file : $ORACLE_HOME/dbs/orapworcl
So the question is : As os authentication succeeds on the sqlplus command line, why does it fail in sqldeveloper?
Edited by: Werner Gross on Dec 31, 2009 12:22 AM