[Progress Communities] [Progress OpenEdge ABL] Forum Post: RE: Client-server database security (allowing remote database servers to accept connections

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The CLIENT-PRINCIPAL is the ABL’s security token. It can be created in a variety of ways, including automagically when you use -U/-P or SETUSERID. You can see this via the GET-DB-CLIENT() function or the SECURITY-POLICY’s GET-CLIENT() method. The C-P is independent of the authentication method used: you can use _User, an ABL table, LDAP, OS login security, etc for the authentication. Different parts of the product allow the use of different authentication schemes. Also, the C-P has been available since 10.1A, though I’d say use at least 11.1 and obviously, the later, the more authentication schemes will be supported.

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