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JMLyle
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2 years ago

Extracting the Username being used in a Gateway Data Source

I beleive there is a way to replace the credential being used by a Data Source on a gateway, but I haven't dug into doing that yet.. At the moment, I would just like to be able to ask a Data Sourc...
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SaiTejaTalasila
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2 years ago

Hi,

 

As far as I know:
You are not supposed to provide gateway access to everyone. You should provide access to the connections. Your password won't be exposed to anyone once the connection is created, and most data sources will lock your account on the database if you enter the wrong password more than three times.So,the rest API command will work only if they have access to that gateway connection.

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JMLyle
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2 years ago

Right, we typically provide gateway acces to no one, but add people as user of specific Data Sources that they need.

 

My struggle is that security would like to do a review of what a Data Source provides someone with access to. As a Gateway admin I can easily determine the connection details, but then the DBA would like to know what account is being used to access the database so that they can provide details about what data/tables/etc it is able to access.