sybperl-l Archive

From: David Hajoglou <hojo at i-tel dot com>
Subject: (no subject)
Date: Dec 17 1998 3:34AM

        We actually, after I sent this, thought that since we are using a
secure session that the user name and passwd of the user(one of our
agents) can be referenced into the new sybase::dblib... command.
Do you feel that this is a good method?

David hajoglou


On Wed, 16 Dec 1998, Michael Peppler wrote:

> >>>>> "David" == David Hajoglou  writes:
>
> David> My question is about the dbsetluser and dbsetlpw functions.
> David> Where would I run these functions so as to avoid putting plain
> David> text user and passwds in the script.
>
> Actually DBSETLUSER and DBSETLPW aren't implemented in
> Sybase::DBlib. You pass the username and password to the dblogin() or
> new() calls.
>
> One technique is to store this information in a file that is readable
> only by the user running the script. In this case, assuming the web
> server runs as user 'webuser' you would create a file that is readable
> only by 'webuser' and which has two lines
>
> the_user
> the_password
>
> (with appropriate values for these two lines, of course) and then your
> code would do something like
>
> #!/usr/local/bin/perl -w
> use strict;
> use Sybase::DBlib;
> my @data;
> open(IN, ".the_password_file") || die "ohlala!: $!";
> while() {
>     chomp;
>     push(@data, $_);
> }
> my $dbh = new Sybase::DBlib $data[0], $data[1];
> etc...
>
> This is of course only one of several ways that this can be
> implemented.
> Michael
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