Comments on: Hide username and password while calling oracle Reports

By: admin

admin — Wed, 11 Jan 2012 05:21:42 +0000

Best solution is to user single sign-on. Another method can be to use cookies, you can read more about cookies implementation in oracle while paper titled, “Oracle Forms Services – Secure Web.Show_Document calls to Oracle Reports”

By: Ahmed

Ahmed — Wed, 11 Jan 2012 03:31:21 +0000

This is very helpfull, I want to know what are the other methods to hide the username and password other than define keymapping in CGICMD.DAT file.

By: admin

admin — Wed, 02 Nov 2011 10:39:40 +0000

Nayayan,

Once you have registered a key in cgicmd.dat, you append this key in you URL that calls report. What syntax you are using to call you report?

In following line, you need to replace your original username, password and connection string.

userlogin: userid=username/password@db %*

By: narayan

narayan — Wed, 02 Nov 2011 06:00:19 +0000

i am new to oracle and i got to know about hiding the username and password and i did follow the procedure mentioned by you. i added the following line at the end of the cgicmd.dat file

userlogin: userid=username/password@db %*

But it didnt help me in hiding the username and password. i use oracle 10g and application in windows 2003 server.

You have mentioned about “Restart reports server”. How do i do it. i did stopped oc4j and restarted it , but didn’t help. could you please guide me in this

By: admin

admin — Thu, 29 Sep 2011 04:09:03 +0000

If you are using the same user, then you would be required to update new password in config file. But usually reports are run as a separate user. In production environment, application has many users, so it is not practical to use the credential of a application specific user to run reports.

By: Sher

Sher — Wed, 28 Sep 2011 15:34:14 +0000

Very helfull.
if a user changes his/her password then he/she will be required
to change in the config file?

By: fabian

fabian — Fri, 16 Sep 2011 08:04:32 +0000

It was really helpfull..