How to fix the Oracle error ORA-24429: External authentication is not supported in this mode.?

In this post, you’ll learn more about the Oracle ErrorORA-24429: External authentication is not supported in this mode. with the details on why you receive this error and the possible solution to fix it.

Oracle Error Description

ORA-24429: External authentication is not supported in this mode.

Reason for the Error ORA-24429: External authentication is not supported in this mode.

An externally authenticated session was requested from a Session Pool which does not support external authentication.

How to fix the Error ORA-24429: External authentication is not supported in this mode. ?

You can fix this error in Oracle by following the below steps

Do not specify mode OCI_SESSGET_CREDEXT.