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How to create new wallet

Here I just showed how do we create  new wallet using orapki utility or OWM ( Oracle Wallet Manager).

Step 1 : Login as oracle user, set the oracle_home path and make new directory for wallet stored.

[oracle@netbackuptest ~]$ export ORACLE_SID=testdb

[oracle@netbackuptest ~]$cd $ORACLE_HOME
[oracle@netbackuptest dbhome_2]$ mkdir -p wallets

Step 2: Create Wallete using orapki

[oracle@netbackuptest dbhome_2]$ orapki wallet create -wallet $ORACLE_HOME/wallets
Oracle PKI Tool : Version 11.2.0.2.0 - Production
Copyright (c) 2004, 2010, Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved.

Enter password:
Enter password again:

Note :  PASSWORD_POLICY : Passwords must have minimum length of eight characters and contain alphabetic 
characters combined with numbers or special characters.

[oracle@netbackuptest dbhome_2]$ ls -l wallets/
total 4
-rw------- 1 oracle oinstall 3512 Mar 20 04:07 ewallet.p12

to display the contents of a wallet

[oracle@netbackuptest dbhome_2]$ orapki wallet display -wallet $ORACLE_HOME/wallets
Oracle PKI Tool : Version 11.2.0.2.0 - Production
Copyright (c) 2004, 2010, Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved.

Enter wallet password:
Requested Certificates:
User Certificates:
Trusted Certificates:
Subject: OU=Class 1 Public Primary Certification Authority,O=VeriSign\, Inc.,C=US
Subject: OU=Class 3 Public Primary Certification Authority,O=VeriSign\, Inc.,C=US
Subject: OU=Class 2 Public Primary Certification Authority,O=VeriSign\, Inc.,C=US
Subject: OU=Secure Server Certification Authority,O=RSA Data Security\, Inc.,C=US
Subject: CN=GTE CyberTrust Global Root,OU=GTE CyberTrust Solutions\, Inc.,O=GTE Corporation,C=US

Using OWM :

Set Oracle home path and execute owm command

Open a existing wallet

Choose open and select a directory and put it a existing wallet password and then you can see the wallet information.

If you want to create a new wallet using OWM, you can choose new panel from left side panel and start to create wallet

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