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is being validated as the entity it claims to be. Typically, the certificate authorities
you trust are called trusted certificates. If there are several levels of trusted
certificates, a trusted certificate at a lower level in the certificate chain does not need
to have all its higher level certificates reverified.
trusted certificate authority
See certificate authority
trust point
See trusted certificate
username
A name that can connect to and access objects in a database.
user-schema mapping
An LDAP directory entry that contains a pair of values: the base in the directory at
which users exist, and the name of the database schema to which they are mapped.
The users referenced in the mapping are connected to the specified schema when
they connect to the database. User-schema mapping entries can apply only to one
database or they can apply to all databases in a domain. See
shared schema
user/schema separation
See shared schema
user search base
The node in the LDAP directory under which the user resides.
views
Selective presentations of one or more tables (or other views), showing both their
structure and their data.
wallet
A wallet is a data structure used to store and manage security credentials for an
individual entity. A
Wallet Resource Locator (WRL) provides all the necessary
information to locate the wallet.
wallet obfuscation
Wallet obfuscation is used to store and access an Oracle wallet without querying
the user for a password prior to access (supports single sign-on (SSO) ).