Analytics Software

Hi,
I am scouring the internet and forums looking for a way to connect to my database from the .rpd connection pool using proxy authetication. NOT Act-As proxy that is a BIEE feature, but RDBMS proxy authentication with BIEE acting as the middle-tier connecting on behalf of many users and authenticating to the RDBMS AS THE INDIVIDUAL USER. I haven't had any luck, and am hoping someone here has set up this same kind of access.

We have a requirement to use SSO with BIEE to integrate with our portal and discoverer apps. We also have a requirement to use EUS (Enterprise User Security). EUS allows you to login to the database using the userids/password from OID. Note that the database doesn't support the SSO token, but it uses the same userid/password stored in OID for authenticating to the database. You still must initiate a connection to the database, but the authentication goes to LDAP. Every connection to BIEE may be using a different userid - we will not have a shared login.

So the issue I see is:

- We configure SSO
- In the BI Server the :USER session variable is set (but NOT :PASSWORD, since BI Server didn't authenticate you it doesn't have the password)
- We create a connection pool - This is where we hit the issue - we need each connection to BI Server to connect down to the database as the SSO user. Since we aren't using a shared account we can't enter a userid/password in this connection. We also can't user :USER and :PASSWORD since SSO doesn't set the :PASSWORD session variable. What I would hope to find is a checkbox "Proxy Authentication" (around where "Shared Logon" checkbox is located) that would connect to the database as the proxy user and then switch to the SSO user.

This is what happens with BI Publisher. On the JDBC connection screen there is a "Proxy Authentication" checkbox.

So, has anyone already solved this problem? Thanks!