Forum Post: DataDirect Cloud, passing Salesforce credentials from the JDBC client

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There are three main way to configure your Salesforce username, password and security token in the DataDirect Cloud. The Salesforce credentials are fully configured in the cloud Set up your data source in the DataDirect Cloud dashboard, the Salesforce userid, password and security token are all supplied in the DataDirect cloud data source. the security token is entered in the advanced tab. The client driver will need to supply the following connect options DatabaseName Data Source defined in the DataDirect Cloud dashboard user DataDirect Cloud account username password DataDirect Cloud account password Example URL: jdbc:datadirect:ddcloud://service.datadirectcloud.com;databaseName=mysforce;user=myuser;password=mypass The Salesforce Username and password supplied by the client driver, the security token is configured in the cloud Set up your data source in the DataDirect Cloud dashboard, the Salesforce security token is supplied in the DataDirect cloud data source. The client driver will need to supply the following connect options DatabaseName Data Source defined in the DataDirect Cloud dashboard user DataDirect Cloud account username password DataDirect Cloud account password datasourceUserId Salesforce username datasourcePassword Salesforce password Example URL: jdbc:datadirect:ddcloud://service.datadirectcloud.com;databaseName=mysforce;user=myuser;password=mypass;datasourceUserId=mysforceUid;datasourcePassword=mysforcePass The Salesforce username password and security token supplied by the client driver set up your datasource in the cloud, the only required value is a datasource name The client driver will need to supply the following connect options DatabaseName Data Source defined in the DataDirect Cloud dashboard user DataDirect Cloud account username password DataDirect Cloud account password datasourceUserId Salesforce username datasourcePassword Salesforce password plus your security token* * if your password is mysforcePass and your token is Mytoken you would pass mysforcePassMyToken for the datasourcePassword Example URL: jdbc:datadirect:ddcloud://service.datadirectcloud.com;databaseName=mysforce;user=myuser;password=mypass;datasourceUserId=mysforceUid;datasourcePassword=mysforcePassMyToken

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