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  • 1.  PAM to Oracle SQL Developer Transparent Login

    Broadcom Employee
    Posted Feb 18, 2020 05:06 AM
    Hi there folks

    Has anyone had success connecting via transparent login from PAM to Oracle SQL Developer
    We have used this knowledge base article but ran into the issue below

    [Environment]
    PAM 3.2.4.64
    Oracle SQL Developer 17.4.0.355 (build 355.2349)

    [Problem Description]
    Customer is using an RDP Application with Transparent Login to access Oracle SQL Developer and they have detected the following problem:
    At the moment the application is starting and the transparent login injects the credentials, if the end user moves the mouse and clicks on a visible entry field, just before the password is injected, then the password is written in the wrong field and is visible to the user.

    [Business impact]
    A security breach that may compromise the integrity of the database as it could be accessed from outside PAM.

    [Troubleshooting]
    The transparent login was written using mouseclicks instead of using the window controls, as they were not recognized by the control viewer during learn mode.


    Is there a better way of doing this?
    Appreciation in advance 

    Roan


  • 2.  RE: PAM to Oracle SQL Developer Transparent Login
    Best Answer

    Broadcom Employee
    Posted Feb 19, 2020 04:53 PM
    Hello Roan, Did you try using the "Freeze Input" option documented on page https://techdocs.broadcom.com/content/broadcom/techdocs/us/en/ca-enterprise-software/layer7-privileged-access-management/privileged-access-manager/3-3-1/implementing/configure-policies-to-provision-user-access-to-devices-and-applications/configure-devices/setting-up-transparent-login/set-up-transparent-login-for-rdp-servers/configure-windows-transparent-login.html?

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    Freeze Input
    Allows insertion of a tag that disables user input (keyboard and mouse events) while a Transparent Login script is running. Freeze Input can prevent re-injection of the user password when using multiple browser tabs. This example freezes user input for 10 seconds. 
    Note: 
    Place this statement at the beginning of your script.
    Example: 
     <inputfreeze action="enable"/>
                      <sleep time="10000"/>                
                      <inputfreeze action="disable"/>



  • 3.  RE: PAM to Oracle SQL Developer Transparent Login

    Broadcom Employee
    Posted Feb 21, 2020 03:53 AM

    Ralf, this is EXACTLY what I was looking for. You are the best. 
    The client is currently testing this, but so far it looks like it sorted out the issue

    Many thanks

    Roan