Securing passwords using Teradata Wallet
Teradata Database has many features that make your data and database secure. To continue to make the system more secure, Teradata has introduced Teradata Wallet. Teradata Wallet (TW) is a facility using which you can store sensitive/secret information such as Teradata Database credentials.
What there is in a wallet is known only by the owner of the wallet. The figure shows the visual representation of a vault in which information is secured and can be opened only by the person who is authenticated to do it:
Users save and retrieve credentials by using this utility. This stored information is used while signing in to the Teradata Database using any utility or piece of software that uses Teradata.
The wallet has two parts:
- The NAME of the item
- The VALUE of the item
Both the NAME and VALUE of the item are sequences of Unicode characters of arbitrary content.
An item name is used to uniquely select an item in the wallet. Value is the content of the item, which...
