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Rick Hillegas updated DERBY-866:
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Attachment: UserManagement.html
Attaching version 3 of the functional spec. This version incorporates feedback
gathered over the past two weeks:
1) Introduces a new value for derby.authentication.provider. When this property
is set to the value NATIVE:$credentialsDB:LOCAL, then $credentialsDB is used to
authenticate system-wide operations but connections to an individual database
are authenticated using credentials stored in its own SYSUSERS table.
2) Fills in the section on Documentation changes.
3) Adds an appendix of sample use cases. This may help people reason about
whether the most likely scenarios will be easy to administer. This section may
provide a helpful summary for people who don't have time to read the whole spec.
> Derby User Management Enhancements
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>
> Key: DERBY-866
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/DERBY-866
> Project: Derby
> Issue Type: Improvement
> Components: Services
> Affects Versions: 10.2.1.6
> Reporter: Francois Orsini
> Assignee: Rick Hillegas
> Attachments: Derby_User_Enhancement.html,
> Derby_User_Enhancement_v1.1.html, DummyAuthenticator.java,
> UserManagement.html, UserManagement.html, UserManagement.html,
> UserManagement.html, derby-866-01-aa-sysusers.diff,
> derby-866-01-ab-sysusers.diff, derby-866-02-ag-createDropUser.diff,
> derby-866-03-aa-resetModifyPassword.diff, dummyCredentials.properties
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>
> Proposal to enhance Derby's Built-In DDL User Management. (See proposal spec
> attached to the JIRA).
> Abstract:
> This feature aims at improving the way BUILT-IN users are managed in Derby by
> providing a more intuitive and familiar DDL interface. Currently (in
> 10.1.2.1), Built-In users can be defined at the system and/or database level.
> Users created at the system level can be defined via JVM or/and Derby system
> properties in the derby.properties file. Built-in users created at the
> database level are defined via a call to a Derby system procedure
> (SYSCS_UTIL.SYSCS_SET_DATABASE_PROPERTY) which sets a database property.
> Defining a user at the system level is very convenient and practical during
> the development phase (EOD) of an application - However, the user's password
> is not encrypted and consequently appears in clear in the derby.properties
> file. Hence, for an application going into production, whether it is embedded
> or not, it is preferable to create users at the database level where the
> password is encrypted.
> There is no real ANSI SQL standard for managing users in SQL but by providing
> a more intuitive and known interface, it will ease Built-In User management
> at the database level as well as Derby's adoption.
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