Ian,

Which environment and which kind of database? If you have unix with Oracle
there's a really nice feature called "ops id" which allows the user to logon
to the database provided his Oracle login name is the same as his unix login
name. I'm not sure if it works going from one server to another.

If you are using Oracle, let me know, and I'll go find my notes from the
last time I worked on it.

Tim Helck

-----Original Message-----
From: Ian Harisay [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Friday, April 19, 2002 1:57 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Question about logging in without username and password


Hi All,

I am moving one of my programs to be run on a different box.  The rules are
a
bit different on the other box.  One of those things is that the username
and
password can not be hardcoded into the program.  I don't have all the
information yet, but does anyone know if the way to do this is through
environment variables?  if it is another please clue me in.  Just trying to
get
a little background. 

I looked in 'Programming the Perl DBI'  didn't find anything that covered
this. 
I could just be blind though.

Thanks,

-Ian

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