The syskm privilege – how, when, and why should you use it?

It is recommended that you use the syskm administrative privilege instead of the sysdba administrative privilege to perform operations related to managing the transparent data encryption (TDE) keystore.

Getting ready

For this recipe, you'll need:

  • An existing database user (for example, jessica) and a password file in the 12c format, if you want to complete it using a password-authenticated user
  • An existing OS user (for example, bob), who belongs to the kmdba OS group, in order to connect to the database using OS authentication

How to do it...

Instructions are split into sections for database authentication and OS authentication.

Database authentication

The instructions for database authentication ...

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