get_credentials: retrieves or requests and stores credentials as necessary for...

In BCHSI/credbl: Credbl: Database Credential Management

retrieves or requests and stores credentials as necessary for ODBC connection

Description

On Mac and Unix, credentials are stored in keyring (can be forced on Windows with forcekeyring=F)

Usage

get_credentials(
  server = NULL,
  reset = F,
  urlencode = F,
  forcekeyring = F,
  domain = T
)

Arguments

server	server name (or any other identifier string that identifies username–password pair
reset	whether to reset credentials should they be already recorded in the registry
urlencode	URL-encode the password
forcekeyring	force keyring credential storage on Windows (on Mac and Unix keyring is used by default)
domain	require username to have a domain prefix ("domain\username")

Details

On Windows, ODBC Data Source Administrator is called (no credentials are explicitly retrieved – list with NULL entries is returned

Value

list(uid="myusername", pwd="password") # on Mac / Unix and list(uid=NULL, pwd=NULL) # on Windows

BCHSI/credbl documentation built on April 16, 2023, 4:17 a.m.