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  • From: "James K. Lowden" <jklowden AT freetds.org>
  • To: Igor Korot <ikorot AT earthlink.net>, FreeTDS Development Group <freetds AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [freetds] New release roadmap
  • Date: Wed, 11 Mar 2009 22:30:11 -0400

Igor Korot wrote:
> >The driver might then display a dialog box that prompts for user IDs
> >and passwords, similar to the following illustration.
> >
> >(the driver part, if we have DSN... or just DRIVER perhaps)
> >
> >However we have no plan for this stuff.
>
> Could you make a plan for this stuff? Even if it's not for current
> release...

Why do you want this? It's really the way of the past. The trend is to
single-signon. Drivers poping up dialogs sounds like something from 1992.


Much better in Win32/64 would be domain-login ability using the Win32 API
to pass the credentials.

But, hey, it's free software. Patches are always welcome.

--jkl




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