Re: Generic user in web application and identification in database

bernard (bernard_at_bosvark.com) wrote:
> ...........................You have two options:
> (1) generic appserver connection to the database which sets an
> CLIENT_IDENTIFIER attribute of the built-in USERENV application context
> namespace for application users before each and every SQL operation or
> (2) a generic appserver user which manages a pool of connection to the
> database but only acts as a proxy user that allows authentication (the
> same as what Sybrand said).

Forgot to mention that my client liked the benefits and wanted option 2. We also use Tivoli LDAP server (again OIS will be much easier and is well documented) in conjunction with OLS and VPD. Received on Wed Oct 11 2006 - 04:46:32 CDT