Re: DBI v2 - The Plan and How You Can Help

2005-07-07 Thread Jared Still
I use a (Perl) password server for this. Passwords are stored encrypted in a configuration file. Clients authenticate with the server, and receive a requested password (encrypted) across the network, if the client is entitled. The user authentication is rudimentary, but it works. SSH certificate

Re: DBI v2 - The Plan and How You Can Help [DRAFT]

2005-07-07 Thread Dean Arnold
Greg Sabino Mullane wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 5. A better set of metadata for DBDs to report the functionality they support. E.g., today, the only way to find out if a DBD is threadsafe (at runtime) seems to be try it and hope for the best. Could get_info be expa

Re: DBI v2 - The Plan and How You Can Help [DRAFT]

2005-07-07 Thread Greg Sabino Mullane
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 > 5. A better set of metadata for DBDs to report the functionality > they support. E.g., today, the only way to find out if a DBD > is threadsafe (at runtime) seems to be try it and hope for the best. Could get_info be expanded to include this? > 8

Re: DBI v2 - The Plan and How You Can Help

2005-07-07 Thread Greg Sabino Mullane
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 No time to respond fully, but a few cents here and there, with some devil's advocate thrown in. Darren Duncan wrote: > All host parameters should be named (like ":foo") rather than > positional (like "?"), meeting with the SQL:2003 standard. The na

RE: DBI v2 - The Plan and How You Can Help

2005-07-07 Thread Reidy, Ron
Sam Vilain wrote: > Maxim Sloyko wrote: > >> But this is not the point. The point was that usage of some file with >> passwords by *DEFAULT* is not the way to go, IMHO. It raises more >> problems than it solves. > > > Can you give an example of such a problem that wasn't already there? > > J

RE: DBI v2 - The Plan and How You Can Help

2005-07-07 Thread Jones Robert TTMS Contractor
When I go to the donation page and attempt to make a donation, the drop-down box does not give DBI as a valid recipient. Is it possible several people may not have donated as they noticed the same results, or maybe they did and it all went into the Perl Development Fund instead? > -Or

Re: SQL Server and 'set dateformat'

2005-07-07 Thread JupiterHost.Net
Ron Savage wrote: On Thu, 07 Jul 2005 11:38:06 +1000, Daniel Kasak wrote: Hi Daniel my $sth = $dbh->prepate( "set dateformat dmy" ); What am I doing wrong? probably "prepate" is not a function, I think you mean "prepare" Does that exact query work via CLI interface (IE is the query bad)

Re: DBI v2 - The Plan and How You Can Help

2005-07-07 Thread Maxim Sloyko
Sam Vilain wrote: Maxim Sloyko wrote: But this is not the point. The point was that usage of some file with passwords by *DEFAULT* is not the way to go, IMHO. It raises more problems than it solves. Can you give an example of such a problem that wasn't already there? Just to be clear, the