User Authentication from java application to a database without giving the password

Hi Folks,

I am trying to authenticate a user and connect to the database without giving the password.

The other thing is that we should not use the properties file to set the Username and Password, which we generally do to connect to a data base using the DSN names, etc.,

I had gone through the User Authentication using the Windows.
and also the data direct but could not find a solution.

please let me know if any feasible solution for this.

Thanks in advance.

cheers
Sambasiva

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In particular, your display name must be a first and a last name separated by a space character, and must not be obviously fictitious.

Thanks!
Scott
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Hi,

Thanks for the suggestion.
Somebody give me the solution for this query.

Thanks in Advance.

Cheers
Sambasiva

Whether you can do this will probably be determined by which RDBMS you are using. For example, it is possible to use NTLM authentication with SQL Server (assuming your driver is jTDS). Which database are you using?

hi,

i am using Oracle10g.

Thanks in advance

cheers
Sambasiva

Well, I've never heard of anyone doing it, but I understand you can configure an external authentication source for an Oracle database, with could be an Active Directory repository. But that's the database itself -you'd also need a driver that support NTLM and I don;t think the drivers supplied with Oracle do (you'd better check this - I'm not 100% sure). You might have to buy a third party driver such as DataDirect.