Overview of Manually Administering External Users and Roles

Manually configure administrators, operators, users, and roles to be authenticated by the operating system.

• About Manually Creating an External Operating System User
  Describes how to authenticate external operating system users (not database administrators) using Windows, so that a password is not required when accessing the database.
• Overview of Manually Granting Administrator, Operator, and Task-Specific Privileges for Databases
  Describes how to enable Windows to grant the database administrator (SYSDBA), database operator (SYSOPER), database administrator for ASM (SYSASM), and new task-specific and less privileged than the ORA_DBA/SYSDBA system privileges to administrators.
• Overview of Manually Creating an External Role
  Describes how to grant Oracle Database roles to users directly through Windows (known as external roles).
• About Manually Migrating Users
  You can migrate local or external users to enterprise users with User Migration Utility.