Chapter 17 Oracle Authentication

Oracle® authentication allows some user configuration to be stored in an Oracle database. When dealing with a large number of users, this authentication type delivers much higher server performance than the File or Unix-PW authentication types. In addition to the user ID and password, this authentication type allows the server to add information stored in the database to Access-Accept messages as reply items. It also supports the server’s load balancing feature.

The authentication type requires that you add user information to the Oracle database by issuing SQL commands that write information to a table. A db_srv daemon, which you must set up and run, provides the communication link between the AAA server and the Oracle database.

	NOTE: To use db_srv, you must purchase and install the Oracle development package. The development libraries are needed to allow the db_srv program to run. In addition, any environment setup required to allow Oracle to operate is also required to allow the db_srv program to operate.