The process of identifying the party logging into a system.
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Mysql master-master permission replication issue
I came to know it's safe to replicate mysql database to have the users and permissions replicated, from a post in ServerFault is-it-ok-to-replicate-mysql-db. I have setup master-master replication ...
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mysql server password change while restoring
I restored all database backup from another server's dumpfile to my machine. At the end my mysql server's password changed to that mysql server's password. Why it got overwritten? What i need to do to ...
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Any security related reasons to prefer Windows Authentication over Sql Server Authentication?
This is a rather short question:
When using Microsoft SQL Server (version 2005 and newer), are there any security related reasons to prefer Windows Authentication over SQL Server Authentication?
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postgres and passwordless authentication
We have users for out postgres database and none have passwords... Do not know the history behind it.
When I try to use clients to connect to these databases, for instance, pgadmin III, the ...
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Delay after running pg_ctl reload [closed]
Recently, I made changes to my Postgres 8.3 database - added a couple new users and added these roles to the pg_hba.conf file. However, after running pg_ctl reload -D [DB directory], the changes ...
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Grant access for any logged in user for common database
In SQL server 2008, I have one database that is a common database that is accessed thru stored procedures in all other databases. Each of the other databases have their own login.
I need a way that ...
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Are there any objective reasons to prefer a prefix over a suffix for an environment-specific login?
When creating environment specific logins (development, qa, staging, production, etc.) I'm faced with the choice of making the denotation a prefix or a suffix to the login name.
Examples
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Can a username and password be hard-coded in a system DSN
We have a legacy CRM that uses a DSN with Windows Authentication to connect to an instance of SQL Server 2005 (part of SBS 2003 Premium). We will soon be doing a major migration leaving us without a ...
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Is it possible to specify Active Directory username and password in connection string?
My organization uses Active Directory to control access to our databases. Building web applications and as part of our CI process I would like to specify the credentials in the connection string.
Is ...
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Transferring concepts - users/groups/permissions of db objects from mysql to postgresql
This seemed like a better fit here than stackoverflow, so here goes:
I've been using mysql for a while since on most of the cheap webhosts it is the provided database. However, now I've started ...
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Can I use OpenLDAP to authenticate users in Oracle?
I like to use OpenLDAP to authenticate my Oracle users. It should be possible to fetch at least the password from the directory.
There appearently is something for the Oracle LDAP servers, but would ...
