RE: Security and the ODBC

Posted in 1997

Dave Otto — 9 Sep 1997 16:58:17 -0400 — source: Informix-list mailing list archive (1991-1998)

At 01:06 PM 9/9/97 -0400, Tim Kelly wrote: >Now that's what I'm taking about. Now it appears I'm not overlooking >some feature to CLI Informix etc. Matter of fact the 2.x ODBC >specification doesn't call for anything like this. I also have the same >issue with MS SQL-Server and Oracle. What was described here could quite simply be implemented w/ roles. First revoke all access rights from everyone (including public). Then set up the roles you need to run the application. The "set role" should be the first command issued from the application. -d

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