logon denied for oracle wallet user

Question

Following a video tutorial on oracle wallets: https://youtu.be/LLZzUNb9ALU

The db server is run from oracle's official docker container.

The steps I have done are as follows:

1. On server shell, ran sql plus as sysdba:

$ sqlplus / as sysdba

2. Created a user:

SQL> alter session set "_ORACLE_SCRIPT"=true;
SQL> CREATE USER fred identified by flintstone;
SQL> GRANT CONNECT, RESOURCE, DBA to fred;

3. Tested logon:

$ sqlplus fred/flintstone

SQL> show user;
User is "fred"

4. Created a wallet at default location: $ORACLE_BASE/admin/$ORACLE_SID/wallet

$ orapki wallet create -wallet $ORACLE_BASE/admin/$ORACLE_SID/wallet -auto_login -pwd MyWalletPass

5. Created a wallet profile for user fred:

$ mkstore -wrl $ORACLE_BASE/admin/$ORACLE_SID/wallet -createCredential $ORACLE_SID fred flintstone

6. Tried to login sqlplus:

$ sqlplus /@$ORACLE_SID

This fails. Got the error ORA-01017: invalid username/password; logon denied

Not able to understand whats wrong. The final goal is to use this wallet for a nodejs application with external auth (node-oracledb). But I think if I can fix step 6 I should be able to use from nodejs.

Answer 1

As suggested by Andrew

The 1st part, I explicitly mentioned wallet location in sqlnet.ora file, and also included the following line:SQLNET.WALLET_OVERRIDE=TRUE. Also verified the correct tns entry in tnsnames.ora. (This is already taken care of during container start, so I didn't have to do anything).

For the 2nd part, I had to use the same sqlnet.ora with the exception that the WALLET_LOCATION parameter was updated with the location to the wallet folder on the client machine. And for the client program, I had to set the TNS_ADMIN environment variable; I had to point it to the folder where the former file would reside. Additionally added a tnsnames.ora file and added a tns name (similar to the oracle service name on the db server).

Note: On the client machine, we have to be careful of the syntax in the sqlnet.ora and the tnsnames.ora file. Different clients have various ways to connect. I have just noted for the case of a nodejs program which used orcaledb as the oracle client. These specific type of clients make use of the environment variable TNS_ADMIN.