If the user\pass is already in the DSN you should be able to just...
my $db =
DBI->connect("dbi:ODBC:$dsn","","");
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Sterin, Ilya (I.) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>Sent: Wednesday, March 10, 2004 12:43 PM
>To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>Subject: RE: Avoiding coding username/password directly into
>perl script
>
>
>well, if your database requires a username/password, then you
>can't just pass it the path (DSN). Not even sure how you
>expect anyone to do that. I believe certain ODBC clients
>might have the capability to embed that either inside the DSN
>and/or somewhere else on the system, so that when a certain
>DSN is recognized, that username/password is used, but not
>sure what clients and/or version do that.
>
>Thanks.
>
>Ilya
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: News Reader [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>> Sent: Wednesday, March 10, 2004 1:36 PM
>> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>> Subject: Avoiding coding username/password directly into perl script
>>
>>
>> Hi there,
>>
>> I figured this would be a pretty common problem, but I didn't see
>> anything in the FAQ or docs.
>>
>> We've got a script that uses DBI to connect to SQL Server.
>>
>> There is a system DSN set up and this already has the username and
>> password. So do we really need to pass them again, as shown below?
>>
>> my $db =
>DBI->connect("dbi:ODBC:$dsn","$db_user_name","$db_password");
>>
>> We tried the following (removing the username/password parameters),
>> but we got a connection error.
>>
>> my $db = DBI->connect("dbi:ODBC:$dsn");
>>
>> It would be nice (for maintenance) and obviously more secure if we
>> could pass only the DSN name.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> - ML
>>
>
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