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Workaround for username size limitation.

802810Dec 2 2011 — edited Jan 9 2012
Hi,

We are currently trying to enable external authentication for our users in to a Oracle database. But we are having a problem because our OS usernames are longer than the limit of 30 characters.

Is there any workaround for this ? can this be done ?

I have heard that we could set a sort of Alias to a externally identified user. (e.g CREATE USER TESTUSERA IDENTIFIED EXTERNALLY AS longDomain\longusername)

Will this work for normal windows authentication or does it need Kerberos or any other mechanism?

Thanks.
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