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Thread: Get user password from external application

Rodrigo Ginyaume
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Get user password from external application Your last visit to this thread was on 1/1/1970 12:00:00 AM

Posted: 25 Jun 08 1:47 PM

Hello,

I am doing a VB.NET application, working in a slx database but the application is not launched from saleslogix. I would like to know if there is a way to:
1)get an user password (not encrypted) having the user name
or
2)validate a password having both user name and password.

I think this is possible from slx as i can get the password from the password properties of the connection string. But not sure if it can be done from outside by decrypting or getting the password using a particular library provided by sage.

Any help will be appreciated, thanks.

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Ryan Farley
Posts: 2265

Re: Get user password from external application Your last visit to this thread was on 1/1/1970 12:00:00 AM

Posted: 25 Jun 08 1:58 PM

There is no way to directly read the users credentials with password from SLX. You can either

Prompt the user for user/password as described in this article http://www.slxdeveloper.com/page.aspx?action=viewarticle&articleid=57
or use the SLX COM layer to have a script return the connection string as described here: http://customerfx.com/pages/crmdeveloper/2005/05/25/2856.aspx

Route #2 will require that SLX is running at the time your app is launched. If that is not possible then your only option is route #1 (which isn't that bad, you could save the values, encrypted, somewhere and reuse them each time, only reprompt for login if the saved values fail)

-Ryan

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Rodrigo Ginyaume
Posts: 20

Re: Get user password from external application Your last visit to this thread was on 1/1/1970 12:00:00 AM

Posted: 25 Jun 08 2:30 PM

Thanks for your reply!!

I think i'll take route #1, that's what i needed.

Regards,

Rodrigo.

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