Re: Configuring access from certain clients

If I understand what you're trying to get at, the solution might be to have the applications connect to the database with a userid known only to the application, not the human using the app? That's what we do. I only have to maintain a small handfull of userids.

On 28 Nov 2001 11:23:51 -0800, petgob_at_hotmail.com (Peter Goblirsch) wrote:

>Hi !
>
>Is it possible to link an account to a specific machine on the network
>something like this ?
>
>user bbbb may only access the database from webserver xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx
>
>user system can not access the DB from xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx, only from
>yyy.yyy.yyy.yyy
>
>Thanks in advance
>
>/petgob

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