"ops id" was the way the DBA wanted to handle the logon. I have this worked out now. Thanks for insight everyone provided.
-Ian > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > 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
