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  • From: Frediano Ziglio <freddy77 AT gmail.com>
  • To: FreeTDS Development Group <freetds AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [freetds] Encrypted passwords
  • Date: Wed, 3 Jun 2015 23:40:07 +0100

Hi,
could you run with strace or similar tool? For strace you would have
to add "-s 2000" to increase dump of memory. You could use isql with
-X option for this purpose. What database version are you using?

Frediano


2015-06-02 22:07 GMT+01:00 Ray Rankins <rrankins AT gothamconsulting.com>:
> That's what I was afraid of.
> Unfortunately, the client site I'm at, there's no way I'd be able to do a
> network capture.
> Also, if it's not a feature in the latest stable release of FreeTDS, I
> wouldn't be able to implement it anyway.
> Guess we'll have to find a way to use the Sybase libraries instead when we
> need to connect to a Sybase server within the shell and perl scripts.
>
> -Ray
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: FreeTDS [mailto:freetds-bounces AT lists.ibiblio.org] On Behalf Of
>> Frediano Ziglio
>> Sent: Wednesday, May 27, 2015 5:26 PM
>> To: FreeTDS Development Group
>> Subject: Re: [freetds] Encrypted passwords
>>
>> 2015-05-27 12:09 GMT+01:00 Ray Rankins
>> <rrankins AT gothamconsulting.com>:
>> > Okay, I’ve searched through the list archives and googled all over the
>> > place
>> and I think I already know the answer but wanted to ask here.
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > Is there any version of FreeTDS that supports connecting to a Sybase
>> > server
>> that requires passwords to be encrypted when sent over the network?
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > I’ve tried adding “encrypt = require” to the freetds.conf file, but that
>> > didn’t
>> help.
>> >
>> > Whenever I try to connect to a Sybase server the requires encrypted
>> password, it fails to login with error message 1640, “Adaptive Server
>> requires
>> encryption of the login password on the network.”
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > Looking at the source code for version 0.91 stable release, it looks
>> > like this
>> functionality is not implemented?
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > Thanks,
>> >
>> > -Ray
>> >
>>
>>
>> Not supported (and not planned either). Actually I don't even know how
>> this is implemented at protocol level. Can you provide some network
>> capture (using some test password of course) ?
>>
>> Frediano
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