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sa ? Sharks Anonymous !

In the dark years of last century the letters sa, standing for one of the nazi groups, were bad. They still are banned form Dutch car plates. As not to confront people with the dreaded letters.

IT has given the two-letter combination a new chance as being the name of your favaurite sql user. To be found in many a web.config.

But for me, since Finding Nemo, sa now stands for Sharks Anonymous.

Peter


Posted Sun, Apr 11 2004 7:03 PM by pvanooijen

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Darrell wrote re: sa ? Sharks Anonymous !
on Mon, Apr 12 2004 8:47 PM
No kidding. Sharks Anonymous may well be all the hackers that delight in finding a connection string with the sa username and password in clear text!
Peter van Ooijen wrote re: sa ? Sharks Anonymous !
on Tue, Apr 13 2004 3:05 AM
Another Nemo citation :
web.config is a friend, not fodder... (free translation from Dutch, havn't seen (heard) the UK version yet)

It is a shame those connection strings are there. This post was originally inspired by one of them. The app-creator joked away from the problem by claiming that sa were the initials of the user. Which was right...

Pitty, it's no big problem to get the db user name itself out of the web.config FI :
http://www.dotnetjunkies.com/Tutorial/4D57511C-653C-406C-B5ED-B364640DAF2F.dcik



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