FreeTDS Development Group

[Marten Lehmann <lehmann AT cnm.de>]

Hello,

a lot of drivers allow to specify the user id and password to connect to 
a database in the odbc.ini. The benefit is, that you can have a local 
odbc.ini containing all required values to access a database so you 
don't have to update changes of connection parameters at more than one 
place resp. not in the source code of an application.

But I haven't found a way to provide uid and pwd for freetds within the 
odbc.ini. No matter if I call the parameters uid, userid or user and pwd 
or password, freetds simply ignores them and requires them to be 
specified in the connection string.

Is there any way to improve this and move it all into one place in the 
odbc.ini?

If not, then why not? Storing uid/pwd in a local .odbc.ini or any other 
place specified by defining $ODBCINI is not more or less secure than 
specifying it in a separate config file that is parsed by the 
application or hardcoded in the application.

Kind regards
Marten