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Configuring security in an embedded environment
In an embedded environment, typically there is only one database
per system and there are no administrative resources to protect databases.
To configure security in an embedded environment:
- Encrypt the database when you create it.
- Configure all security features as database-level properties.
These properties are stored in the database (which is encrypted). See
Scope of properties and
Setting database-wide properties for more
information.
- Turn on protection for database-level properties so that they cannot
be overridden by system properties by setting the derby.database.propertiesOnly property
to TRUE. See the Derby Reference Manual for details
on this property.
- To prevent unauthorized users from accessing databases once they
are booted, turn on user authentication for the database and configure user
authorization for the database.
- If you are using Derby's
built-in users, configure each user as a database-level property so that user
names and passwords can be encrypted.
Important: Derby's
built-in authentication mechanism is suitable only for development and testing
purposes. It is strongly recommended that production systems rely on LDAP or a
user-defined class for authentication. It is also strongly recommended that
production systems protect network connections with SSL/TLS.
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