Universe Connection - options for specifying database authentication

Question

Are there any options for specifying the id and password for a database connection from the Universe Designer other than entering them directly into the tool?  Our information security group prefers to administer security accounts (i.e. user id's and passwords) in standard security products as compared to having to know development tools (e.g. Business Objects).
Thank you.

Answer 1

to create a connection you have to enter a user name or password for this connection.
in your case, your Administrator can create those connections in the designer before they create any universe and then give an access to which developers access which connections to create specific universes.
to create a connection there is no other way more than entering the user name and password.
in the XI 3.0 there is some new and very good option "User BusinessObjects Credentials Mapping"
which i think send the current connected business objects user name and password to the connection user name and password.
its just map the user name of the BO system to the user name of the connection, and same thing for the password, and for this you have to have a DB user name for every BusinessObjects user name,
this is wide use with oracle databases.
good luck