Use More than One Security Mechanism

Learn how to set up more than one security mechanism.

If your replication system supports multiple security mechanisms, you may need to install more than one security mechanism on your Replication Server to ensure that both ends of each pathway can support the same mechanism. In this scenario, you can:

Configure the Replication Server, for all routes, connections, and other pathways, using configure replication server. Make sure that the default security mechanism name is the first one listed under SECURITY in the libtcl.cfg file.
Configure security for the individual pathways that use a different security mechanism. Make sure that the security mechanism is listed in libtcl.cfg.

To find out the security mechanisms and supported security parameters of the Replication Server, use the admin security_property command. To find out the security mechanisms and current settings of a particular pathway, use the admin security_settings command.

Potential Security Issue
If different security mechanisms are used at the primary and replicate databases and Adaptive Server user names cannot be guaranteed unique at these sites, a potential security breach exists for request stored procedures.

Parent topic: Maintain Network Security

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