RE: hiding passwords on NT

Is this VB app something that is developed internally within your organization? Or is it a third party tool that you have no control over? The reason I ask is because if it is something that you have access to the source code for, it seems to me that you could just as easily hard-code the username/password into the source code of the application, in which case when it is compiled, it will be compiled into the binary .exe which you would never be able to get into (without decompiling/reverse-engineering it that is). That's what I would do.

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We have a NT client program written in VB that uses a single user to connect to the database. The application does not prompt for a user or password. The user and password that is used for connection to the database is passed to the client program as parameters in t he application shortcut.

We would like to hide this user and password somewhere, rather than have it in the shortcut.

Any advice on the best way to do this?

OS authentication is not an option.

John

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