Re: Security and the ODBC

john@rl.is wrote: > The only solution to this problem is to give only read access to the > users and give the maintenance application it's own userid, e.g. > "program". The application begins by connecting to the database with this > userid and password (which users are unaware of). Good idea, but how can this be accomplished with 4GL 4.1? I've once written an application that did exactly that, but that required the program to be suid root and a little C function that did the setuid() function call. I don't think it is such a good idea to have all these programs sitting around which are suid root. Or is there another solution how a program can connect with user-ID and password unter 4GL 4.1 and ONLINE 5.07? Regards, Richard -- +--------------------------+------------------------------------------+ | Dr. Richard Spitz | INTERNET: spitz@ana.med.uni-muenchen.de | | EDV-Gruppe Anaesthesie | Tel : +49-89-7095-3413 | | Klinikum Grosshadern | FAX : +49-89-7095-8886 | | 81366 Munich, Germany | | +--------------------------+------------------------------------------+