FireFox 4 breaks Oracle SSO
I can no longer do SSO on Oracle application servers, using mod_osso with Firefox 4. Some problems with SPNEGO have been "solved", breaking SSO.Will be investigated, and continued. For now - do NOT...
View ArticleSSO Fails randomly; clock skew too great
Ran against some weird issues today. At random people failed to pass Single Sign On. Not until I started to monitor the OC4J Security logging (in $ORACLE_HOME/opmn/logs) that I saw a failure...
View ArticleUpgrading VirtualBox
It wasn't as easy as though, so here's the drill:sudo apt-get install virtualbox-4.0If you get errors about trust/keys/whatever, do: wget -q...
View ArticleEdit your export dmp-file: never?
Don't!Every expert in the field will tell you to never, ever edit your dump file.And rightfully so. Unless you really are caught between a rock and a hard place, and think you know what you are doing....
View ArticleAPEX PDF Printing II and ORA-20001 "Printing Engine"
If you use APEX PDF printing with an 11G database, make sure you configure the acl. 11G does NOT allow alless to the www by default!When you run into this error: ORA-20001: The printing engine could...
View Articledeconfig.pl - oh yeah!
Ended up restoring databases, the other day, due to:If the tool deconfig.pl runs successfully, the two tablesorasso.wwsso_papp_configuration_info$ and orasso.wwsec_enabler_config_info$will not be...
View ArticleTwo faced dual?
Anyone witnessed this before?SQL> select * from dual;ADDR INDX INST_ID D-------- ---------- ---------- -03A00074 0 1 XSQL> desc dual Name Null? Type...
View ArticleIf ever you plan...
to post something on the internet about the US of A - don't. And if you do, be sure to use plain English, or slang, that is understood by Homeland Security.Read what could happen to you!
View ArticleAPEX and APEX_LDAP
In the search for the integration of APEX with SSO and the OID, I became somewhat disappointed by the APEX_LDAP package.Where it clearly states "p_group_base - The base from which the search should be...
View ArticleFree as in freedom, not as in free beer
Please support this in an endeavour to stop The Evil Umpire.
View ArticleAPEX_LDAP - but more
While less is more, not every APEX_LDAP fucntion is rewritten.Thus far, the following has been done and somewhat tested - this is V0.1 (and not even that call is implemented):create or replace package...
View ArticleAdvanced Security Option for Free
In an attempt to make right what somewhat backfired, the Advanced Security Option is now for free (probably not always - check with your local store!): "However, RAC customers who were previously not...
View ArticleMe like (upgraded hardware)
Me like a lot! Running two Oracle Virtual machines at the same time, on top of a minimal server install Ubuntu LTS 12.04:After starting the SOA/BPEL services:Got myself the latest (well, almost the...
View ArticleVMWare and Precise
After the migration to Precise Pangolin (Ubuntu 12.04 LTS), I needed VMWare Player. I do have a MS Windows Server 2000 image, and attempts to make that available under VirtualBox resulted in a...
View ArticleResetting MS Windows Admin password
Of course, after all this time, I forgot the master password on the Windows Server image. Luckily, I have this bootable CDRom with password reset software. But this VMWare boots so damn quick, I can...
View ArticleCheckRepositoryPermission connectAs
When a Single Sign On Forms environment fails to login, and the client shows the following stack, check if the forms container is correctly referenced in...
View Articlehttp-500: oracle.ias.repository.schema.SchemaException
If a Single Sign On enabled Forms server fails to perform SSO, and the client gets a http-500 error, with the stack trace below, then check your variables "oid_formsid" and "formsid_group_dn" in...
View Article[OSSO] W14: mod_osso is loaded logfile flooding
If your application server logging is flooded with errors as below, make sure you have any mod_osso config file defined. it does not matter if it is correct, or not used.[Thu May 24 15:55:42 2012]...
View ArticleApex 4.2 just over the hill (Early Adopter)
Just missed Joels entry, but APEX 4.2 Early Adopter is available. See his post here.
View ArticleAPEX and ACL trouble (ORA-31204)
Today, I had to resolve an issue with an APEX LDAP call, that succeeded in the developer database, but failed in test with an ORA-31204: DBMS_LDAP: PL/SQL - Invalid LDAP Session.As this concerned 11G...
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