dbFront.com - Recent questions in Security

Active Directory Federated Services Single Sign-on Setup

Fri, 08 Sep 2023 17:39:06 +0000

Does dbFront support Active Directory Federated Services?

Admin Grants Access to a Connection

Tue, 21 Mar 2023 15:59:33 +0000

Would it be possible to describe option "1) Admin Grants Access to a Connection" in more details? If possible with screenshots.

I cannot create non administrative users.

SSL Certificate - Could we use a wildcard certificate

Sat, 02 Jul 2022 14:26:53 +0000

We are updating our public SSL certificate and would like to utilize a wildcard certificate instead. Does the application support that?
At the moment - we are getting a error, but we can see that it is using the new wildcard certificate.

Can't save Settings. Access to the path ... is denied.

Wed, 26 Jan 2022 22:34:54 +0000

We have a Windows 2019 server and our environment is high security.

We used to be able to save the settings in dbFront but now we get the error message:

Can't process [SaveSetup], Access to the path 'C:\Program Files (x86)\dbFront\51nzdt4a.tmp' is denied.

What has changed?

dbFront is NOT affected by the Log4j Security Vulnerability

Sat, 11 Dec 2021 20:02:43 +0000

We are reaching out to all our software vendors. Can you please let us know if this security vulnerability affects your software?

https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2021-44228

Warning: The User List Was Truncated!

Mon, 15 Mar 2021 18:55:50 +0000

When opening or refreshing the "Connection Access" dialog I see the message.

THE USER LIST WAS TRUNCATED!
A user list of 127201 users and 55 groups was loaded.

What is the cause and what can be done about this.

Row Level Security examples including CASE and IF

Wed, 12 Aug 2020 14:59:26 +0000

We are currently testing this functionality. What would be helpful is some more examples that show what can be included in the row level security in terms of SQL language. I.e. can we include 'case' or 'if when' clauses to distinguish between users?

Filter recordset by user access with where clause

Wed, 12 Aug 2020 13:16:43 +0000

Is it possible to provide a user with an already filtered recordset or table? Example - we have one large table that contains records for a number of technicians. When a technician logs in he should only see the records that are related to him. He should not have access to any other records. There is a field in this table that contains his name.

Single-Sign-On Extent?

Tue, 24 Mar 2020 14:46:42 +0000

When you say "Enabling Single-Sign-On will disable Windows and Database authentication", is that just in reference to logging in? Can you still use Windows or Database authentication in setting up database connections?

Error: "No Database connection access", How to login without Admin access?

Fri, 01 Jun 2018 14:04:52 +0000

I can't connect to a database using a non-administrative user.

I get the error message: "No Database connection access".

Can't get SID for 'groupname', The Server service is not started.

Tue, 13 Feb 2018 19:15:17 +0000

The following errors appears in dbFront after a server restart or a dbFrontService restart..

Can't get SID for '%groupname%', The Server service is not started.

AD Groups Support

Wed, 04 Oct 2017 02:09:10 +0000

Is there now or planned support for AD Groups instead of individual users? It'd be nice if I could make an AD group "DBFront-Update" and put all the users in AD in that group and then add that group to dbFront for access.

AD performance issues when using the "access" button (limit OU selection)

Thu, 20 Jul 2017 02:46:40 +0000

When using the Connection Access button the number of entries returned causes major lag. Is there a way to limit the OU selection within DBFront. (i.e. OU=ThisOU,CN=Company,DC=com)?