FreeTDS Development Group

[Ken Collins <ken AT metaskills.net>]

> 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