19c important lesson, test features together
A while back I wrote about issues with the wallet_root parameter and doing clones. What I didn't do back then because I was in a hurry is test this feature/parameter in conjunction with OUD ( Oracle Unified Directory). As said in this post https://pfierens.blogspot.com/2020/07/converting-tde-encrypted-non-cdb-to-pdb.html the wallet_root parameter replaces the encryption_wallet_location = (source = (method = file) (method_data = (directory = /zfs/encwallet/<DB_UNIQUE_NAME> ) ) ) In the sqlnet.ora however what I didn't know and what is not documented to my knowledge is that it also ignores the wallet_location = (source = (method = file) (method_data = (directory = /some_directory/<DB_UNIQUE_NAME>/wallet ) ) ) This wallet contains in our case the certificate for OUD. When we tried to login via OUD we received an ORA-01017 tracing that this was due the fact that the certificate for OUD was not found When we copied the wall