FreeTDS Development Group

["James K. Lowden" <jklowden AT schemamania.org>]

On 25 Feb 2003 11:18:25 +0000, Andrew Shuttlewood
<andrew.shuttlewood AT futureroute.co.uk> wrote:
> > UID and PWD are not parsed from odbc.ini.
> > This is clearly (I hope) state in
> > http://www.freetds.org/userguide/x1848.htm.
> > odbc.ini is world readable so is not good to store such information on
> > it...
> 
> Ahhh, I didn't quite understand the DSNless connection stuff (as UID is
> listed in the table, I just read it as okay)

Stated, yes, clearly, no.  

I worked on that part of the UG, now posted as
http://www.freetds.org/userguide/x1848.htm#AEN1914.  It took me some time
to understand it, never having really tried before.  

The last column in the table is "In odbc.ini".  "Yes" means the attribute
appears in odbc.ini; "No" means it's specified as part of the connect
string.  I think it would be clearer if the heading were "used in" and the
values were "odbc.ini" and/or "connection string".  But maybe the whole
thing needs reworking.  

--jkl