[freetds] Windows authentication on Windows

James K. Lowden jklowden at freetds.org
Sat Jan 30 14:32:51 EST 2010


Frediano Ziglio wrote:
> > Did I mention how excellent this is?  The FreeTDS community owes you
> > a big smooch.
> 
> Sometimes is strange how a thing that is easy for a person could be so
> appreciated!

	"It's easy if you know how."  

> Well... some updates and some reminds. I think sspi code could be
> considered completed:

Agreed.  Needs only documentation.  (I'm working on it.) 

> As a reminds Kerberos support works since 2007 with empty username and
> password  

Can username/password be NULL?  

The word "Kerberos" does not appear in the UG.  That's because I have no
direct experience with it and no one who understands it has documented it.
 

I myself would like to use Kerberos for FreeTDS on RHEL.  Any advice on
what to tell my Linux admin and my MSSQL admin, to make sure FreeTDS will
be able to connect?  

> Perhaps we could remove username/password from tsql or other
> tools but perhaps is better to add an explicit option 

I don't understand why "isql.exe -E" and "bcp.exe -T" exist.  ISTM if the
user doesn't provide -U and -P then the library should attempt a domain
login for $LOGNAME.  

--jkl



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