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  1. Preface
  2. Understanding Domains
  3. Managing Your Account
  4. Using Informatica Administrator
  5. Using the Domain View
  6. Domain Management
  7. Nodes
  8. High Availability
  9. Connections
  10. Connection Properties
  11. Schedules
  12. Domain Object Export and Import
  13. License Management
  14. Monitoring
  15. Log Management
  16. Domain Reports
  17. Node Diagnostics
  18. Understanding Globalization
  19. Managing Distribution Packages
  20. Appendix A: Code Pages
  21. Appendix B: Custom Roles
  22. Appendix C: Informatica Platform Connectivity
  23. Appendix D: Configure the Web Browser

Administrator Guide

Administrator Guide

Pass-through Security

Pass-through Security

Pass-through security is the capability to connect to an SQL data service or an external source with the client user credentials instead of the credentials from a connection object.
Users might have access to different sets of data based on the job in the organization. Client systems restrict access to databases by the user name and the password. When you create an SQL data service, you might combine data from different systems to create one view of the data. However, when you define the connection to the SQL data service, the connection has one user name and password.
If you configure pass-through security, you can restrict users from some of the data in an SQL data service based on their user name. When a user connects to the SQL data service, the Data Integration Service ignores the user name and the password in the connection object. The user connects with the client user name or the LDAP user name.
A web service operation mapping might need to use a connection object to access data. If you configure pass-through security and the web service uses WS-Security, the web service operation mapping connects to a source using the user name and password provided in the web service SOAP request.
Configure pass-through security for a connection in the connection properties of the Administrator tool or with infacmd dis UpdateServiceOptions. You can set pass-through security for connections to deployed applications. You cannot set pass-through security in the Developer tool. Only SQL data services and web services recognize the pass-through security configuration.

Example

An organization combines employee data from multiple databases to present a single view of employee data in an SQL data service. The SQL data service contains data from the Employee and Compensation databases. The Employee database contains name, address, and department information. The Compensation database contains salary and stock option information.
A user might have access to the Employee database but not the Compensation database. When the user runs a query against the SQL data service, the Data Integration Service replaces the credentials in each database connection with the user name and the user password. The query fails if the user includes salary information from the Compensation database.

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