Well, as far as the first one goes, it's impossible if the "normal user" is the same as "nobody" or whatever the CGI/Perl user is. If that user can't 'read' the password file, it's a lost cause, period.

The second one has nothing to do with "identified externally". It should use the UNIX user id/password to validate the user (without the need to pass the actual password). This may or may not work across a network depending upon the flavor of *NIX and type of Oracle. However, remote login via ssh is available without passing a password using public/private key encryption, so I'd figure something similar would be possible here (although I'm not 100% on that).

In reply to Re^3: DBI Password connection to Oracle by Transient
in thread DBI Password connection to Oracle by dougX

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