MDAC 2.5 SDK - Technical Articles

OLE DB Security

Security Administration Interfaces for OLE DB Providers

June 1999

Microsoft Corporation

Summary: This guide documents the optional OLE DB interfaces that can be implemented to support the administration of security information in a data store. These interfaces are used by Microsoft^® ActiveX^® Data Objects Extensions for Data Definition Language and Security (ADOX), versions 2.1 or later.

You can add support for security administration interfaces to your OLE DB data provider by using COM interfaces. When these COM interfaces are implemented, an OLE DB data consumer can manage the security policies enforced on the data store.

This guide does not discuss techniques for enforcing security policies nor does it discuss tools. It focuses primarily on the administration of the access-control security policies and includes only a brief discussion on privacy and authentication.

Important   Because Microsoft is investigating other possible techniques for data access security administration, the techniques documented here do not represent any officially supported mechanism in OLE DB for administering database security. This guide will be updated when any officially supported mechanism for security administration for OLE DB is released.

Contents

• Introduction
  
  
• Programmer's Guide
  • Overview of Security Administration
    
    
  • Providing General Security Information Using ISecurityInfo
    
    
  • Trustee Administration
    
    
  • Access Control Administration
• Programmer's Reference
  • Interfaces
    
    
  • Property Groups and Properties
    
    
  • Structures
    
    
  • Constants
    
    
  • Schemas
• Appendix: IObjectAccessControl vs. IAccessControl