Configuring keystore location in sqlnet.ora

In this recipe, you're going to configure the location of a software keystore in a regular file system. If you want to use Hardware Security Module (HSM), see the official Oracle documentation (Chapter 3 in Oracle Advanced Security Guide, part named Configuring Hardware Keystore).

How to do it...

  1. Create a directory, to hold a keystore, that is accessible to the owner of Oracle software (for example, $ORACLE_BASE/admin/ora12cR1/wallet). See Figure 1:
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    Figure 1 - Create a directory and edit sqlnet.ora

  2. Edit sqlnet.ora and add entry to specify the location of the keystore (see Figure 1 and 2). This step is optional ...

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