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

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