Re: Puzzled: connect

Norbert.Heidbrink@home.of.the.brave.de wrote: > Sorry, folks, for a basic question, but at the moment I am absolutely > puzzled and do not see anything. > > Scenario: > SERVER is a Linux machine. > There is IDS running von Computer SERVER. > On Computer SERVER there is a user "databaseowner" who has got access to > certain databases, tables, ... > > CLIENT is a Linux machine. > On Computer CLIENT there is user "joe" who wants to connect to a > database on SERVER via JDBC-calls. > So user "joe" initiates a connect, providing "databaseowner" as user > together with "databaseowner's" password. Hi, if the connect is initiated with a user and password specified there doesn't have to be any "trust" relationship between client and server. "databaseowner" has to be a valid user on SERVER and the correct password has to be provided (and consequently, there doesn't have to be a user joe on SERVER). Actually, the JDBC manual document states that trust relationships involving .rhosts or /etc/hosts.equiv are not supported with JDBC (as far as I know it does work, though). Hope this helps, Heiko > Basically, this is possible. Right or wrong? > > If this is possible, who has to be trusted by SERVER? > User "joe" connecting from CLIENT > or user "databaseowner" connecting from CLIENT? > > As a consequence of the above question: > In this setup, is it neccessary to have a user "joe" on machine SERVER? > > Thanks for an answer. > Norbert Heidbrink