Your senior manager asks you to study the production database server and submit a report on the settings done by the previous DB

You have been recently hired as a database administrator. Your senior manager asks you to study
the production database server and submit a report on the settings done by the previous DBA.
While observing the server settings, you find that the following parameter has been set in the
parameter file of the database:

REMOTE_OS_AUTHENT = TRUE
What could have been the reason to set this parameter as TRUE?

A.
to disable the administration of the operating system from a remote client

B.
to allow the start up and shut down of the database from a remote client

C.
to enable operating system authentication for a remote client

D.
to restrict the scope of administration to identical operating systems

E.
to enable the administration of the operating system from a remote client