I have been looking for the documents or white papers which talks on how oracle would perform an user authentication to the client system, when you perform a remote OS authentication.

My question here is how does oracle confirms that the user who is logged into the client system is the owner before comparing the name with the oracle username. Does it take the uid and translate it to the username and then compares it to the database user name or what?

Just got lost in this part of undestanding? There are no docs that talks about the steps that oracle would go through on authenticating the remote user to the database user whose identification had been set to external.

Any information on this would greatly be appreciated.

Sam