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Setting Up the Customized External Authentication Plug-in

You can store user security credentials in a repository other than Oracle Internet Directory--for example, a database or another LDAP directory--and use these credentials for user authentication to Oracle components. You do not need to store the credentials in Oracle Internet Directory and then worry about keeping them synchronized. Authenticating a user by way of credentials stored in an external repository is called external authentication.

This chapter contains these topics:

• Native Authentication Contrasted with External Authentication

• Example: Installing, Configuring, and Enabling the External Authentication Plug-in