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Explaining the Benefit of OVD-EUS Integration

I've realized not everyone knows what Enterprise User Security is and thus I will take a moment to explain what it is which will then help demonstrate the importance of our EUS/OVD integration.

In general terms EUS simplifies database user account and role management allowing you to improve security and meet compliance requirements.

More specifically EUS allows:

  • End-users to authenticate username and passwords to the database that are stored in an LDAP server
  • Allowings mapping of users and groups to shared schema thus instead of having to share username/passwords to access a database application, users can have their own individual accounts
  • Allows mapping of roles (aka Enterprise Roles) in the directory to database roles
EUS has been a database feature since 8i but until EUS 10.1 and OVD 10.1.4.2 - has always required an Oracle Internet Directory (OID) installation.

While OID is a very capable directory - some customers have delayed deploying EUS because they did not want to have to manage an OID instance only to deploy EUS, in particular in cases where they were not using any other Oracle product (such as portal or EBusiness Suite) that required OID.

The OVD-EUS integration allows customers to now manage all of the directory data required for EUS within the existing enterprise directory.

Consult the OVD 10.1.4.2 documentation for list of supported enterprise directories for this integration.

Comments (3)

Your post about EUS and OVD is very interesting (And I believe you ;-)). I'm sorry, I haven't been able to find the documentation. -

Best Regards

Very interesting indeed! I would appreciate any link or metalink reference about howto configure this...

Mark Wilcox:

There was a delay in loading the docs to OTN, I will post a link to them in my next post.

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