There are lots of different ways of doing encryption, my favorite way that I
have used in the past was to use Oracle 8's extproc to call a shared Library in
unix. What I did was create a PL/SQL wrapper function that would make call to
the crpyt shared library. I then made another PL/SQL function that would
generate a random seed, and then yet another function that would make the call
to generate the random seed and pass the "clear" password and the random seed
to the wrapper function which would pass back the encrypted password.
Tom Tyson
Exodus Communications
- John Dunn <john.dunn_at_sefas.co.uk> wrote:
> Our development team want to control access to application functionality via
> 'logical' users. That is, a list of users and the application functions they
> can use will be maintained in a database table. Actual connection to the
> database would always be via one user(maybe the schema owner, maybe some
> other single specified user).
>
> Does anyone else have applications that work in this way? What use do you
> use to connect to the database?
>
> The 'logical' users would also have passwords that would need to be held on
> the database tables. Is there any (easy) way to encrypt a character string
> and store it on the database?
>
> The front end application is Visual Basic using OO4O...but we use lots of
> PL/SQL too.
>
> Database is Oracle 8.0.5
>
> John
>
>
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