Corporation Network Router User Manual

Customizing the RADIUS Challenge-Response User Interface
C-2 Oracle Database Advanced Security Administrator's Guide
Customizing the RADIUS Challenge-Response User Interface
You can customize this interface by creating your own class to support the
functionality described in Table C–1. You can then open the sqlnet.ora file, look
up the SQLNET.RADIUS_AUTHENTICATION_INTERFACE parameter, and
replace the name of the class listed there (DefaultRadiusInterface), with the
name of the new class you have just created. When you make this change in the
sqlnet.ora file, the class is loaded on the Oracle client in order to handle the
authentication process.
The third party must implement the Oracle RADIUS Interface, which is located in
the ORACLE.NET.RADIUS package.
public interface OracleRadiusInterface {
public void radiusRequest();
public void radiusChallenge(String challenge);
public String getUserName();
public String getPassword();
}
Table C–1 Server Encryption Level Setting
Parameter Description
radiusRequest Generally, this prompts the user for a user name and password
which will later be retrieved through getUserName and
getPassword.
getUserName Extracts the user name the user enters. If this method returns
an empty string, it is assumed that the user wants to cancel the
operation. The user then receives a message indicating that the
authentication attempt failed.
getPassword Extracts the password the user enters. If getUserName returns
a valid string, but getPassword returns an empty string, the
challenge keyword is replaced as the password by the
database. If the user enters a valid password, a challenge may
or may not be returned by the RADIUS server.
radiusChallenge Presents a request sent from the RADIUS server for the user to
respond to the server's challenge.
getResponse Extracts the response the user enters. If this method returns a
valid response, that information then populates the
User-Password attribute in the new Access-Request packet. If
an empty string is returned, the operation is aborted from both
sides by returning the corresponding value.