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  • From: Ken Collins <ken AT metaskills.net>
  • To: FreeTDS Development Group <freetds AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [freetds] Using SSL With DBLIB/TinyTDS
  • Date: Tue, 12 Apr 2011 22:18:49 -0400


> DBSETLDBNAME(), as it should, simply sets the default database in the
> login packet, obviating the need to call dbuse(). It has nothing to do
> with encryption.

Crap, copy paste fail on my part. I meant to say that my program is now using:

DBSETLSECURE(login)

What was this supposed to do? Just make the login secure?

> To affect encryption in a db-lib program, your only option is to use
> the encryption property in freetds.conf. It can be set per-server or
> globally for the client, but not programmatically per connection.
>
> To change that would mean extending db-lib, adding
>
> DBSETLENCRYPT( LOGINREC*, TDS_ENCRYPTION_LEVEL)
>
> and/or adding an environment variable. (DB-Library has no equivalent
> of a connection string, but environment variables do roughly the same
> job.)

I'll look into that.


- Ken



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