Oracle.ManagedDataAccess and ORA-01017: invalid username/password; logon denied

Question

I have a challenging situation on one of our servers. I have an ASP.NET MVC 3 application that needs to connect to an Oracle 12c database. It does so using the following co

Answer 1

I had the same problem! I didn't try changing the RegKey but I did try changing the web and machine config. This did not work.

What did solve the problem was changing the app pool I was running under!

The App Pool was running under a service account and once I moved it to a new App Pool with just the default system account it started picking up the User ID and Password from the config.