Supporting External Authentication in the Oracle OCI8 Extension

I've had a couple of recent requests for the OCI8 extension to support "External Authentication" (aka OS authentication). I also recall a discussion or two in the past, and there is at least one bug logged on it. Having external authentication would allow things like Kerberos to be used for OCI8 authentication. This need is clearly growing but I'm not in favor of having it always enabled in every web environment - I feel another php.ini parameter looming :( If anyone wants to be throw in some comments or help me re-evaluate the pros and cons, drop me a line. Some Oracle documentation discussing External Authentication is in: http://download.oracle.com/docs/cd/B28359_01/network.111/b28531/authentication.htm#CHDEGIFB Chris -- Christopher Jones, Oracle Email: christopher.jones@oracle.com Tel: +1 650 506 8630 Blog: http://blogs.oracle.com/opal/ Free PHP Book: http://tinyurl.com/f8jad