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Figure 1-2:
This illustration is a flow diagram showing the choices available for database authentication schemes, depending upon whether you are administering the database from a remote client or locally from the same machine where the database resides. If you are administering the database locally, or from a remote client with a secure connection, you have the following choices:

1. Operating system authentication
2. Password file authentication

If you are administering the database from a remote client, and you do not have a secure connection, then your only choice is to use password file authentication.