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Thread: Avoid hardcoded connection string

Steve Knowles
Posts: 657

Avoid hardcoded connection string Your last visit to this thread was on 1/1/1970 12:00:00 AM

Posted: 14 Apr 08 3:11 PM

I have a .net web service that updates a table in the slx db. I want to use the SLX OLEDB provider to facilitate creating sync logs. Currently I have the username and password hardcoded into the connection string, but I would like to avoid this as I would have to update the webservice code if the password changes. I would also like to avoid putting the password in the web.config file. What other options do I have here? This is my current connection string:
ConnectionStr = "Provider=SLXOLEDB.1

assword=nothepassword

ersist Security Info=True;User ID=admin;Initial Catalog=PWMSLXTEST;Data Source=PWMSLXTEST;Extended Properties=PORT=1706;LOG=ON;CASEINSENSITIVEFIND=ON;AUTOINCBATCHSIZE=1;"

Thanks

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Ryan Farley
Posts: 2265

Re: Avoid hardcoded connection string Your last visit to this thread was on 1/1/1970 12:00:00 AM

Posted: 14 Apr 08 6:21 PM

Well, you have to get the connection string from somewhere - which means you'll have to store it somewhere. IMO, nothing wrong with storing it in the web.config.

Other than that, you'd have to devise something tricky to grab it from somewhere else (such as store it in a database and use a trusted connection to connect to the database to grab it, then disconnect and reconnect using the new connection string, KWIM?)

-Ryan

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Mark Dykun
Posts: 297

Re: Avoid hardcoded connection string Your last visit to this thread was on 1/1/1970 12:00:00 AM

Posted: 15 Apr 08 6:31 AM

Steve,

It is standard practice to provide the connection string in web.config as Ryan mentioned. You could put the user and admin is a different file and encrypt those. With the OLEDb connection string the good thing is that the connection is pointing to the SalesLogix Alias in connection manager and not directly to the SQL server so it is limiting the surface area to the one database. Also there are guards in ASP.net to not allow a config file to be uploaded or displayed on a remote machine.

Mark

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Trent Haynes
Posts: 32

Re: Avoid hardcoded connection string Your last visit to this thread was on 1/1/1970 12:00:00 AM

Posted: 21 Aug 08 1:00 PM

I would recommend encrypting that entry in your webconfig file.

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