Unless you can keep the connection and change the authorization, that
technique doesn't buy you much .
Thor HW
----- Original Message -----
From: Bob Withers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Tuesday, August 10, 1999 4:44 PM
Subject: Re: Further on Session problems with Java Servlet Programming
Book...
> On Tuesday, August 10, 1999 5:27 PM, Rod McChesney [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> wrote:
> > jon * wrote:
> > >
> > > > Yes, I know I could do things with connection pooling, but I want
> different
> > > > users logged in as their real user ids, not using a dummy user
> everyone
> > > > uses.
> > >
> > > Huh? that statement makes no sense.
> >
> > Actually, it makes lots of sense. If you are using a database's own
> > security setup, allowing and denying table access by roles or users,
> > then connection pools won't work. You need a separate connection for
> > each user.
> >
> > Whether that's a good idea or not is a separate question, but it's
> > quite common in IS environments to use database security so that
> > applications can't subvert the privileges the DBA assigns.
> >
> > Rod McChesney, Korobra
> >
>
> We do something similar but do use a connection pool. The pool just
> accepts userid/password as parameters to getConnection and returns a
> connection for that userid. A background thread shuts down connections
> that exceed some maximum idle time.
>
> Regards,
> Bob
>
>
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