Oracle | DBMS_CREDENTIAL

Oracle DBMS_CREDENTIAL Version 26ai

General Information

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Purpose Interface for authenticating and impersonating EXTPROC callout functions, as well as external jobs, remote jobs and file watchers from the SCHEDULER.

AUTHID CURRENT_USER

Dependencies

ALL_CREDENTIALS	DBMS_ISCHED	DBMS_UTILITY
CDB_CREDENTIALS	DBMS_SCHEDULER	SCHEDULER$_CREDENTIAL
DBA_CREDENTIALS	DBMS_SYS_ERROR	USER_CREDENTIALS
DBMS_GSM_POOLADMIN

Documented Yes

Exceptions

Error Code	Reason
ORA-27469	Invalid credential attribute
ORA-27476	Identified credential does not exist

First Available Yes: Packages and Types Reference

Security Model Owned by SYS with EXECUTE granted to PUBLIC which seems like a gross violation of "best practice" for security as certainly no-one with only CREATE SESSION privilege needs to execute this package. This grant should be revoked and only granted as required.

Source {ORACLE_HOME}/rdbms/admin/dbmscred.sql

Subprograms

CREATE_CREDENTIAL	DROP_CREDENTIAL	UPDATE_CREDENTIAL
DISABLE_CREDENTIAL	ENABLE_CREDENTIAL	Demo

CREATE_CREDENTIAL

Create a new username and password pair dbms_credential.create_credential( credential_name IN VARCHAR2, username IN VARCHAR2, password IN VARCHAR2, database_role IN VARCHAR2 DEFAULT NULL, windows_domain IN VARCHAR2 DEFAULT NULL, comments IN VARCHAR2 DEFAULT NULL, enabled IN BOOLEAN DEFAULT TRUE, key IN VARCHAR2 DEFAULT NULL);

conn sys@pdbdev as sysdba

      

      DECLARE

       cname   user_credentials.credential_name%TYPE := 'UWCRED';

       uname   user_credentials.username%TYPE := 'UWCLASS';

       pwd     sys.scheduler$_credential.password%TYPE := 'ZzYzX6*';

       dbrole  VARCHAR2(30) := NULL;

       windom  sys.scheduler$_credential.domain%TYPE := NULL;

       comment user_credentials.comments%TYPE := 'Test Cred';

       enable  BOOLEAN := FALSE;

      BEGIN

        dbms_credential.create_credential(cname, uname, pwd, dbrole, windom, comment, enable);

      END;

      /

      

      col username format a10

      col password format a45

      col domain format a10

      col comments format a10

      

      SELECT *

      FROM scheduler$_credential;

      

      -- note flag = 0

DISABLE_CREDENTIAL

Disable an existing credential dbms_credential.disable_credential( credential_name IN VARCHAR2, force IN BOOLEAN DEFAULT FALSE);

exec dbms_credential.disable_credential('UWCred', TRUE);

      

      PL/SQL procedure successfully completed.

      
      

      SELECT *

      FROM scheduler$_credential;

      

      -- note flag = 0

DROP_CREDENTIAL

Drop an existing credential or comma separated list of credentials dbms_credential.drop_credential( credential_name IN VARCHAR2, force IN BOOLEAN DEFAULT FALSE);

exec dbms_credential.drop_credential('UWCred', TRUE);

      

      SELECT *

      FROM scheduler$_credential;

ENABLE_CREDENTIAL

Enable a disabled credential dbms_credential.enable_credential(credential_name IN VARCHAR2);

exec dbms_credential.enable_credential('UWCred');

      

      PL/SQL procedure successfully completed.

      
      

      SELECT *

      FROM scheduler$_credential;

      

      -- note flag = 4

Code from {ORACLE_HOME}/rdbms/admin/a11020000.sql reformatted for readability DECLARE CURSOR creds IS SELECT owner, credential_name FROM dba_scheduler_credentials WHERE username IS NULL; BEGIN FOR cred_info IN creds LOOP dbms_credential.enable_credential('"'||cred_info.owner||'"."'|| cred_info.credential_name||'"'); END LOOP; END; /

UPDATE_CREDENTIAL

Alter the value of a credential attribute dbms_credential.update_credential( credential_name IN VARCHAR2, attribute IN VARCHAR2, -- USERNAME, PASSWORD, WINDOWS_DOMAIN, or COMMENTS value IN VARCHAR2);

SELECT *

      FROM scheduler$_credential;

      

      exec dbms_credential.update_credential('UWCred', 'PASSWORD', 'ZzYzX9*');

      

      PL/SQL procedure successfully completed.

      
      

      SELECT *

      FROM scheduler$_credential;

Demo

This demo uses all 5 procedures within the package and assumes that you have created the ORABASE PDB with the UWCLASS user as its admin user. conn uwclass/uwclass@pdbdev DECLARE cname user_credentials.credential_name%TYPE := 'UWCRED'; uname user_credentials.username%TYPE := 'UWCLASS'; pwd sys.scheduler$_credential.password%TYPE := 'ZzYzX6*'; dbrole VARCHAR2(30) := NULL; windom sys.scheduler$_credential.domain%TYPE := NULL; comment user_credentials.comments%TYPE := 'Test Credential Creation'; enable BOOLEAN := FALSE; BEGIN dbms_credential.create_credential(cname, uname, pwd, dbrole, windom, comment, enable); END; / desc dba_credentials col owner format a10 col credential_name format a20 col username format a10 col windows_domain format a15 col comments format a25 col password format a30 SELECT * FROM dba_credentials; exec dbms_credential.enable_credential('UWCred'); PL/SQL procedure successfully completed. SELECT * FROM dba_credentials; SELECT obj#, username, password FROM sys.scheduler$_credential; exec dbms_credential.update_credential('UWCred', 'PASSWORD', 'ZzYzX9*'); PL/SQL procedure successfully completed. SELECT obj#, username, password FROM sys.scheduler$_credential; exec dbms_credential.disable_credential('UWCred', TRUE); PL/SQL procedure successfully completed. SELECT * FROM dba_credentials; exec dbms_credential.drop_credential('UWCred', TRUE); PL/SQL procedure successfully completed. SELECT * FROM dba_credentials;