Oracle Database Advanced Security 10g Release 1, Administrator'S Manual

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Managing Wallets
Using Oracle Wallet Manager 8-9
client wallets. It is only optional for products that take the wallet password at
the time of startup.
After completing the preceding process, you have a wallet that contains a user
certificate and its associated trust points.
Managing Wallets
This section describes how to create a new wallet and perform associated wallet
management tasks, such as generating certificate requests, exporting certificate
requests, and importing certificates into wallets, in the following subsections:
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Required Guidelines for Creating Wallet Passwords
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Creating a New Wallet
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Opening an Existing Wallet
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Closing a Wallet
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Importing Third-Party Wallets
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Exporting Oracle Wallets to Third-Party Environments
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Exporting Oracle Wallets to Tools that Do Not Support PKCS #12
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Uploading a Wallet to an LDAP Directory
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Downloading a Wallet from an LDAP Directory
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Saving Changes
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Saving the Open Wallet to a New Location
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Saving in System Default
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Deleting the Wallet
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Changing the Password
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Using Auto Login
Required Guidelines for Creating Wallet Passwords
Because an Oracle wallet contains user credentials that can be used to
authenticate the user to multiple databases, it is especially important to choose
a strong wallet password. A malicious user who guesses the wallet password
can access all the databases to which the wallet owner has access.