Each security mechanism has an object identifier associated with it. The globally unique object identifier maps to the local name for a security mechanism in the global object identification file, Objectid.dat. This provides a consistent and flexible way to communicate security mechanism names between clients and servers. The Objectid.dat file is located in the $SYBASE/config directory.
The format for the global identification file is:
[Object Class]
Object_Identifier Object_Name_List
For a security mechanism the entry is as follows:
Object Class – is “secmech.”
Object_Identifier – is a sequence of non-negative integer values separated by dots. The object identifier is based on a naming tree defined by the international standards bodies CCITT and ISO. An example of an object identifier from the sybase root for the DCE security driver would be 897.4.6.1.
Object_Name_List – is a comma-delimited list of local security mechanism names.
For example:
[secmech]
1.3.6.1.4.1.897.4.6.3 = NTLM
