Read-only SQL Authentication Provider Creating Many Connections to Database (Doc ID 2928800.1)

Last updated on FEBRUARY 23, 2024

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Symptoms

Using Read-only SQL authentication provider in WebLogic security realm to authenticate end-users. When using WebLogic admin console to display users: Summary of Security Realms >myrealm >Users and Groups, the users are shown as expected but there are lots of database connections opened to backend database. For example, prior to displaying users:

$ ss -pn | grep <admin pid> | grep <database port> | wc -l
17

Show users in security realm: Summary of Security Realms >myrealm >Users and Groups. 

$ ss -pn | grep <admin pid> | grep <database port> | wc -l
120

Cause

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