Re: New release roadmap
Igor Korot <[email protected]>
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James, -----Original Message----- >From: "James K. Lowden" <[email protected]> >Sent: Mar 11, 2009 10:30 PM >To: Igor Korot <[email protected]>, FreeTDS Development Group <[email protected]> >Subject: Re: [freetds] New release roadmap > >Igor Korot wrote: >> >The driver might then display a dialog box that prompts for user IDs >> >and passwords, similar to the following illustration. >> > >> >(the driver part, if we have DSN... or just DRIVER perhaps) >> > >> >However we have no plan for this stuff. >> >> Could you make a plan for this stuff? Even if it's not for current >> release... > >Why do you want this? It's really the way of the past. The trend is to >single-signon. Drivers poping up dialogs sounds like something from 1992. Because it's Microsoft documented in MSDN? > > >Much better in Win32/64 would be domain-login ability using the Win32 API >to pass the credentials. Unfortunately I don't have a means to test it on Windows yet, but I will try soon. I also wonder what will happen with the driver in this case: will it fail? do nothing? spits error message about not enough connect info? > >But, hey, it's free software. Patches are always welcome. I will try to look at it. Can't promise anything though... > >--jkl Thank you.