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Re: User Name from Connection Pool

Posted By: Informix DBA
Date: Thursday, 22 September 2016, at 3:10 p.m.

In Response To: Re: User Name from Connection Pool (Informix DBA)

Hi Fernando,

Thank you for pointing us in the direction of Trusted Context. That is
precisely what we were looking for. I am confirming that we tested and it
works to allow non dba users to run "SET SESSION AUTHORIZATION". In
addition to the Informix Documentation, here are 2 links, a developer works
and IBM support doc that we found very useful in configuring the trusted
context object.

http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/data/library/techarticle/dm-1205trustedcontextinformix/

http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21620630

Thank you and have a great day,

--Dave

On Wed, Sep 21, 2016 at 2:20 PM, Informix DBA <in4mixdba@gmail.com> wrote:

> Thank you Fernando. I will read up on using the "trusted context"
> functionality.
>
> Thank You,
>
> --Dave
>
> On Wed, Sep 21, 2016 at 12:25 PM, Fernando Nunes <domusonline@gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> > Short answer, you can't... at most the driver could capture the OS user
> > running the process, but obviously that wouldn't solve your problem.
> > For situations like that we implemented in Informix a similar
> functionality
> > that DB2 and Oracle had for some times.
> > In Informix (and DB2) it's called "trusted context". Basically it's the
> > possibility of a session to change it's user within the database without
> > having to reconnect or re-authenticate.
> >
> > I can't remember exactly what / how it needs to be implemented in the
> > applciation server. I think the J2EE server has some features/class to do
> > this, but I'd jhave to look.
> > On the database server side you need to use SQL to create the trusted
> > context and you can see the syntax in the SQL syntax guide.
> >
> > There are a few restrictions which I personally believe may inhibit many
> > informix customers from using it. Specifically a session where the SET
> > SESSION AITHORIZATION was run cannot do remote operations (by remote I
> mean
> > on another database, even within the same instance).
> >
> > Please investigate and return if you have doubts. I should be able to
> find
> > some info abut the app server side if you're interested.
> >
> > Note that what you want is not trivial, because there is no standard way
> to
> > make the final user identity to "flow" to the database layer... specially
> > because the concept of end user is not defined... it can be Mr. John Doe,
> > or a userid validated inside an application, or a user identity from a
> > single signon infra-structure etc...
> >
> > Auditing tools (like Guardium) try to find this through queries sent by
> the
> > application.... "SELECT COUNT(*) FROM my_user_table WHERE username='john'
> > and password ='$%/#($'
> >
> > (this would allow it to infer the user is "john"
> >
> > Regards.
> >
> > On Wed, Sep 21, 2016 at 4:50 PM, Informix DBA <in4mixdba@gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > We are running 11.70.FC7W2 on Solaris. We have a Java application that
> > > uses a connection pool for Informix DB connections. However, we have
> many
> > > triggers that log user activity on certain tables. We would like to log
> > > the user that made the change, however from the DB side we only see the
> > > application user from the connection pool and not the actual user id.
> > > onstat -u only shows "java_app" in the user column and we want the
> actual
> > > user name.
> > >
> > > How can we get the user name connecting to the connection pool so that
> > the
> > > trigger can log the real user name.
> > >
> > > Thank You,
> > >
> > > --Dave
> > >
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> >
> > http://informix-technology.blogspot.com
> > My email works... but I don't check it frequently...
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