Is the username/password being specified in odbc.ini?  That's the only
way I can see that working.  Otherwise, it will use the default values
for each field, which is almost certainly not what you want.

On Thu, Sep 17, 2015 at 11:33 PM, Paul Boniol <[email protected]> wrote:
> Thanks, yes, we have been using the DBI:ODBC.  Not specifying anything other
> than the ODBC DSN, or specifying undef for username and password returns
> "Login failed for user ''.".  Specifying the user but no password (or undef
> for the password) returns Login failed for user 'our-user-name'.
>
> Paul Boniol
>
> On Thu, Sep 17, 2015 at 10:57 PM, Andrew Farnsworth <[email protected]>
> wrote:
>>
>> You should use the DBI perl module and the DBD::ODBC Driver. See
>> http://search.cpan.org/~mjevans/DBD-ODBC-1.52/ODBC.pm
>>
>> Be sure to investigate the odbc_driver_complete option.
>>
>> It has been a while since I've done this but you could try passing in
>> undefined values for username and password.
>>
>> Andrew Farnsworth
>> (804) 405-3630
>>
>> On Sep 17, 2015, at 11:22 PM, Paul Boniol <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>> A consultant who knows a lot about ColFusion, but less about Perl said
>> that we should be able to specify the Windows ODBC data source in our Perl
>> scripts, without needing to specify the password on the connect string as it
>> is stored in the ODBC connection.
>>
>> Everything I have tried and found online says that we need to specify the
>> password on the connect.
>>
>> Is anyone aware of a way to use the password stored in the Windows ODBC
>> connection instead?  (If this is possible, it is a win/win from my point of
>> view, but nothing I have seen points to the ability to do so.)
>>
>> Paul
>>
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