Microsoft Windows Registry Wallet Storage

Oracle Wallet Manager lets you store multiple Oracle wallets in a Windows file management system or in the user profile area of the Microsoft Windows system registry. Storing your wallets in the registry provides the following benefits:

  • Better Access Control: Wallets stored in the user profile area of the registry are only accessible by the associated user. User access controls for the system thus become, by extension, access controls for the wallets. In addition, when a user logs out of a system, access to that user's wallets is effectively precluded.

  • Easier Administration: Wallets are associated with specific user profiles, so no file permissions need to be managed, and the wallets stored in the profile are automatically deleted when the user profile is deleted. You can use Oracle Wallet Manager to create and manage the wallets in the registry.

The supported options are as follows:

  • Open a wallet from the registry

  • Save a wallet to the registry

  • Save As to a different registry location

  • Delete a wallet from the registry

  • Open a wallet from the file system and save it to the registry

  • Open a wallet from the registry and save it to the file system