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Home -> Community -> Usenet -> c.d.o.server -> Re: OWS 3.0 - need help with Database Authorization method
the documentation is not wrong however, the input screens are.....
Please get the production version of owas3.0 -- the screens support the generation of DADs that do not store the username.
On Thu, 28 Aug 1997 10:58:35 -0400, "J. C. Kelly" <jc_kelly_at_dayton.saic.com> wrote:
>I am evaluating OWS 3.0. (beta version 3) I want to use the database
>authorization method, where the OWS agent solicits a database username
>and password.
>
>According to the documentation, this behavior will occur if one creates
>the Data Access Descriptor (DAD)without a username and password.
>Unfortunately, the Web-based administrator interface does not allow a
>DAD to be created unless a username and password are specified. So the
>documentation is wrong.
>
>I have tried editing the DAD descriptor portion of the wrb.app file
>(which is created by the Web-based administrator interface). If I erase
>the username and password lines, I get a cartridge authentication error
>when I try to connect. If I leave the lines intact, but erase the
>values of username and password, I get the same error (that is:
>username =
>password =
>)
>
>As an aside, the wrb.app is supposed to store the passwords as encrypted
>information, but it is, in fact, storing them as clear text that most
>anyone with a unix account on the OWS server could read.
>
>ANybody have thoughts about how I can clear this problem up, or what I
>am doing wrongly in the setup?
Thomas Kyte
tkyte_at_us.oracle.com
Oracle Government
Bethesda MD
http://govt.us.oracle.com/ -- downloadable utilities
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