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Thread: Create Connection in registry without Datalink Manager

Steve Knowles
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Create Connection in registry without Datalink Manager Your last visit to this thread was on 1/1/1970 12:00:00 AM

Posted: 20 Jun 07 8:12 AM

Is it possible to create a connection purely by editing the registry in SLX? The connection information appears to be stored here:
HKEY_CURRENT_USER ? Software ? Saleslogix ? ADOLogin

The only roadblock I see is that the password is encrypted in the registry. Has anyone tried this before? Is that an encryption hash that could be duplicated? We would like to do this with Alterus. Thanks

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Ryan Farley
Posts: 2265

Re: Create Connection in registry without Datalink Manager Your last visit to this thread was on 1/1/1970 12:00:00 AM

Posted: 20 Jun 07 2:30 PM

Hi Steve,

I've created them by direct writes to the database before and all was well. IIRC, I just left the password blank. Not really sure what purpose it serves there since the user will be prompted for it anyway.

-Ryan

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Mike Jones
Posts: 13

Re: Create Connection in registry without Datalink Manager Your last visit to this thread was on 1/1/1970 12:00:00 AM

Posted: 20 Jun 07 3:19 PM

It's probably used by Windows Authentication for logging in.

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Ryan Farley
Posts: 2265

Re: Create Connection in registry without Datalink Manager Your last visit to this thread was on 1/1/1970 12:00:00 AM

Posted: 20 Jun 07 3:25 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by Mike Jones

It's probably used by Windows Authentication for logging in.

I don't believe so - with windows authentication there really aren't any passwords involved. It really just checks to see if the windows user you're logged matches one associated to a specific SLX user, if it does it just essentially bypasses the whole password thing (more or less)

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Lawrence Reid
Posts: 63

Re: Create Connection in registry without Datalink Manager Your last visit to this thread was on 1/1/1970 12:00:00 AM

Posted: 21 Jun 07 9:00 AM

Is the password used for Outlook integration? There is a check box to login automatically. I bounce back and forth between admin and my account so I leave it unchecked. Even with it unchecked, it will remember the password as long as it is the same user that most recently logged into any slx.exe.

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Ryan Farley
Posts: 2265

Re: Create Connection in registry without Datalink Manager Your last visit to this thread was on 1/1/1970 12:00:00 AM

Posted: 21 Jun 07 11:17 AM

Quote:

Originally posted by Lawrence Reid

Is the password used for Outlook integration? There is a check box to login automatically. I bounce back and forth between admin and my account so I leave it unchecked. Even with it unchecked, it will remember the password as long as it is the same user that most recently logged into any slx.exe.

Nope, that is stored elsewhere, not with the defined connections for the login prompt.

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