[oracle] ORA-28040: No matching authentication protocol exception

I am trying to connect my grails project to Oracle databse(Oracle 12c) in windows(8) system. However, whenever I run my application I get following exception :

Caused by: org.apache.commons.dbcp.SQLNestedException: 
Cannot create PoolableConnectionFactory (ORA-28040: 
No matching authentication protocol)

Caused by: 
java.sql.SQLException: ORA-28040: 
No matching authentication protocol

According to internet suggestion I also tried editing my *.ora file but it is not working.

I added following snippet in sqlnet.ora file :

SQLNET.ALLOWED_LOGON_VERSION=10
SQLNET.ALLOWED_LOGON_VERSION_CLIENT=10
SQLNET.ALLOWED_LOGON_VERSION_SERVER=10

Here i tried assigning (10,11,12) but neither of them is working.

Can anyone please help me with this ?

just install ojdbc-full, That contains the 12.1.0.1 release.

I resolved this issue by using ojdbc8.jar. Oracle 12c is compatible with ojdbc8.jar

Here is some text I found at experts-exchange:

Bug 14575666

In 12.1, the default value for the SQLNET.ALLOWED_LOGON_VERSION parameter has been updated to 11. This means that database clients using pre-11g JDBC thin drivers cannot authenticate to 12.1 database servers unless theSQLNET.ALLOWED_LOGON_VERSION parameter is set to the old default of 8.

This will cause a 10.2.0.5 Oracle RAC database creation using DBCA to fail with the ORA-28040: No matching authentication protocol error in 12.1 Oracle ASM and Oracle Grid Infrastructure environments.

Workaround: Set SQLNET.ALLOWED_LOGON_VERSION=8 in the oracle/network/admin/sqlnet.ora file.

Adding

SQLNET.ALLOWED_LOGON_VERSION_SERVER = 8

is the perfect solution sql.ora directory ..\product\12.1.0\dbhome_1\NETWORK\ADMIN

I was using eclipse and after trying all the other answers it didn't work for me. In the end, what worked for me was moving the ojdb7.jar to top in the Build Path. This occurs when multiple jars have conflicting same classes.

1. Select project in Project Explorer
2. Right click on Project -> Build Path -> Configure Build Path
3. Go to Order and Export tab and select ojdbc.jar
4. Click button TOP to move it to top

My Initial error is : ORA-28040: No matching authentication protocol exception

My DB version is 12.2 (Solaris) and client version is 11.2 ( windows). I have added below in both server and client sqlnet.ora

SQLNET.ALLOWED_LOGON_VERSION_CLIENT = 8 SQLNET.ALLOWED_LOGON_VERSION_SERVER = 8

while connecting, I have got invalid username and password hence I have recreated the password ( same password ) in database which is resolved my issue.

Except for adding the following to sqlnet.ora

SQLNET.ALLOWED_LOGON_VERSION_CLIENT = 8
SQLNET.ALLOWED_LOGON_VERSION_SERVER = 8

I also added the following to both the Client and Server, which resolved my issue

SQLNET.AUTHENTICATION_SERVICES = (NONE)

Also see post ORA-28040: No matching authentication protocol

This except for adding the following to sqlnet.ora

SQLNET.ALLOWED_LOGON_VERSION_CLIENT = 8
SQLNET.ALLOWED_LOGON_VERSION_SERVER = 8

If you get "ORA-01017: invalid username/password; logon denied" error, then you need to re-create your password.

Very old question but providing some additional information which may help someone else. I also encountered same error and I was using ojdbc14.jar with 12.1.0.2 Oracle Database. On Oracle official web page this information is listed that which version supports which database drivers. Here is the link and it appears that with Oracle 12c and Java 7 or 8 the correct version is ojdbc7.jar.

In the ojdbc6.jar is for 11.2.0.4.

While for most cases replacing ojdbc driver jar will be the solution, my case was different.

If you are certain you are using correct ojdbc driver. Double check if you are actually connecting to the database you are thinking you are. In my case jdbc configuration (in Tomcat/conf) was pointing to different database that had different Oracle version.