Re: .NET, connection pooling and security .

I'm going to start looking at OID.

thanks,
steve

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> We are going the OID way because of these problems.
>
> Anyway here is a wild idea:
>
> Tell the web guys to use the user userid (he probably logged to the web
> application) with a standard password that is common to all of them and is
> supplied by the web application, the user does not see it.
>
> If you have an information security guy, teach him how to add users and
> grant the application user role.
>
> The schema owner password need to be a closely held secret of the dba
group.
>
> Yechiel Adar
> Mehish
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>
>
> > I hope somebody on the list can help me out with this.
> >
> > All of our 3-tier apps are architected with a schema owner (owns all
> objects
> > used by an application) and application user (no create privs, but it
does
> > have full dml privs to the schema owner objects).
> > On the web side, connection pooling is setup with 10 connections logged
in
> > (all as the application user).
> > When users connect, the application reads some active directory keys
that
> > tell if the user is a reader, dml user or admin user (all privs).
> >
> > I don't feel the application should be managing security and I'd like to
> > take that responsibility away.
> > The 10 identical connections logged into the database bothers me too.
> >
> > I'd like to make it work similar to our 2-tier apps where we use roles,
> > assign them to a user and they connect individually. We don't have OID
> setup
> > and I imagine that would solve this. Short of that, is there any other
way
> > to work around having the 10 identical connections logging in and having
> the
> > application maintaining security? Is there another way of assigning the
> > security?
> >
> > I don't have any web development experience and I thought I'd check here
> > first to see how others deal with this. I hope somebody else has
worked
> > this out at their shop.
> >
> > I'm not sure if the answers will change, but it's an all M$ shop, except
> for
> > Oracle.
> >
> > Any help would be appreciated.
> > Steve
> >
> >
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