Databases Reference
In-Depth Information
Available 'out of the box' authentication schemes
The following screenshot shows the available pre-conigured schemas in Oracle
Application Express:
Oracle Application Express accounts
This type of authentication validates against Oracle Application Express user
credentials stored in an internal repository. These user accounts are created and
managed by an Oracle Application Express Workspace administrator.
Custom
It is sometimes necessary to write custom authentication schemes to meet speciic
requirements. Credentials veriication is performed through custom PL/SQL
code. By creating your own custom authentication schema, you are in full control
over how and where your user repository is stored. An example of when custom
authentication is needed, is when you make use of table driven authentication. So
authentication occurs against your own set of tables or repository..
Database accounts
Authentication against database accounts will authenticate an Oracle Application
Express application user with database username/password (for example
scott
/
tiger
) credentials. Granted database privileges are ignored; it only validates the
correct combination of username and password of the database user.
HTTP header variable
HTTP header variable authentication is authentication against the Oracle Access
Manager authentication schema. Oracle Access Manager 11g is supported with
APEX 4.1 and above. HTTP header variable will become available in Oracle
Application Express version 4.2 and higher.
