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Deployment Guide
Using Password Security
To add security for user passwords with the table interface, use the
aderb/_rbpwenc.p
procedure to encode the passwords, then specify the Encoded Password (-rbP) parameter in the database connection string either on the command line or in the RB-DB-CONNECTION field of the Report Engine table. When you use the -rbP parameter, Report Engine accepts encoded passwords and deciphers the encoding. You can specify -rbP either on the command line or in place of the Password (-P) parameter in the RB-DB-CONNECTION field of the Report Engine table.Progress Software Corporation supplies the compiled code for the
_rbpwenc
procedure. The procedure accepts two character arguments:The
password.p
. procedure shows how to use theaderb/_rbpwenc
procedure:
CAUTION: Although
_rbpwenc
encodes users’ passwords making it more difficult for a user to obtain the password required to connect to a database, other users can still copy the encoded password and use it to generate their own reports. Progress Software provides_rbpwenc
to make your password more secure, but it does not guarantee that_rbpwenc
is unbreakable.
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