Oracle Wallet Setup ORA-12578

Question

I am having trouble setting up the Oracle Wallet on a new box connecting to a new database. I have added the following lines to my SQLNET.ORA:

SQLNET.WALLET_OVERRIDE = TRUE
WALLET_LOCATION = (SOURCE=(METHOD=FILE)(METHOD_DATA=(DIRECTORY=c:\oracle\Wallet))

The wallet is created without error, the credentials added, and I can list the credentials back from the wallet without a problem, but when I go to use them I get an ORA-12578 as follows:

C:\oracle\Wallet>sqlplus /@MYDB

SQL*Plus: Release 11.2.0.1.0 Production on Mon Oct 31 16:57:53 2011

Copyright (c) 1982, 2010, Oracle.  All rights reserved.

ERROR:
ORA-12578: TNS:wallet open failed

I am on a 64 bit box using the 32 bit 11.2 client to connect to an 64 bit 11.2 database. Logging in without the wallet works fine. The error message indicates that I should turn tracing on. I have done so, but don't see anything obvious. Does anyone have a suggestion before I contact Oracle support?

Answer 1

I was able to figure out from the trace file that there was line in the sqlnet.ora file that it didn't like. I narrowed it down to the WALLET_LOCATION line and finally recognized that there was a missing parenthesis at the end of the line.

Answer 2

You also can use the below entry which is a working copy on my wallet store.

WALLET_LOCATION =
   (SOURCE =
     (METHOD = FILE)
     (METHOD_DATA =
       (DIRECTORY = c:\oracle\Wallet)
     )
   )

SQLNET.WALLET_OVERRIDE = TRUE
SSL_CLIENT_AUTHENTICATION = FALSE
SSL_VERSION = 0