You could have an app running on server with rigths of SYSDBA to make this
work.

Luiz.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Dion" <dion@...>
To: <IBObjects@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Wednesday, August 22, 2001 11:55 AM
Subject: [IBO] Setting up security


> Hi,
>
> If anyone has some time in hand please help me out, if not please point me
> to the right user group.
>
> I need advice with the following problem. I want to administer user rights
> in a user table within a database. I basically want to store the users
> rights in a field(per user). His rights will be loaded when his logon is
> successful. It is here where the problem is. I will have to embed a user
> name in the exe(bad idea) without a password(another one) sothat a
> connection can be established in the background and validation done
against
> the user table. The application will reflect the rights for this user when
> they are loaded(ie menu items greyed etc). Is there a better way of
> implementing user rights or permissions in this fashion. The users will
not
> be able to access the db via other utilities like dbexplorer as they will
> not have valid db usernames, as I have implemented my own user table.
>
> Regards,
> Dion.
>
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