FreeTDS Development Group

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

On Thu, 17 Oct 2013 20:11:53 +0000 (UTC)
Marc Abramowitz <msabramo AT gmail.com> wrote:

> I found the problem. The FreeTDS userguide says that the encryption
> setting is "required", but if you look in the code, it's actually
> "require". Compounding this, FreeTDS will ignore the setting and you
> won't know unless you've set TDSDUMPCONFIG.
> 
> Ouch.
> 
> Merge request to correct the userguide:
> https://gitorious.org/freetds/freetds/merge_requests/9
> 
> Merge request to make an invalid encryption setting a fatal error:
> https://gitorious.org/freetds/freetds/merge_requests/10

Ouch indeed.  I think the next release of FreeTDS should probably
reject all incorrect configurations, both invalid keywords and
out-of-range values.  Diagnosing configuration errors is easier if the
error is obvious, and the remedy is simple.  

Thanks for chasing this down.  

--jkl