RE: hiding passwords on NT

How about store it in a configuration file or registry and store it encrypted. Let the application read from the file or registry.

Richard

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Thanks for the replies on this...but we do not want to code the user and password into the application...we want to held it externally...but securely

John

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Frank N. Pettinato [SMTP:frankp_at_extremezone.com]
> Sent: 06 April 2001 16:54
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> Subject: RE: hiding passwords on NT
>
> You should be able to add an entry in the client's ODBC settings for uid
> and
> pwd. It's been a long time since I worked with this stuff...I would search
> the M$ web site to be sure, but I think that you can just create two new
> strings under the ODBC connection key and the app will not prompt you.
>
> List , any help with this one?
>
> Thanks,
> Frank Pettinato
> Oracle DBA
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> Robert D SSgt AFIT/SCA
> Sent: Friday, April 06, 2001 8:01 AM
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>
> Is this VB app something that is developed internally within your
> organization? Or is it a third party tool that you have no control over?
> The reason I ask is because if it is something that you have access to the
> source code for, it seems to me that you could just as easily hard-code
> the
> username/password into the source code of the application, in which case
> when it is compiled, it will be compiled into the binary .exe which you
> would never be able to get into (without decompiling/reverse-engineering
> it
> that is). That's what I would do.
>
> -::YEX::-
> <)))><
>
> -----Original Message-----
> Sent: Friday, 06 April, 2001 7:41 AM
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>
> We have a NT client program written in VB that uses a single user to
> connect
> to the database. The application does not prompt for a user or password.
> The
> user and password that is used for connection to the database is passed to
> the client program as parameters in t he application shortcut.
>
> We would like to hide this user and password somewhere, rather than have
> it
> in the shortcut.
>
> Any advice on the best way to do this?
>
> OS authentication is not an option.
>
> John
>
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