Why does the raster data source properties not show me me the authentication method?
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Thanks for the link Dan. I did look around in this location this morning.
Layer—Help | ArcGIS for Desktop
Which is all good. I imagine that I could ask it with arcpy... But what I want to know is why does ArcCatalog not report this back to the end user?
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interesting... you should run a quick arcpy test to see what it reports if anything at all
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Sure
servProp = layer.serviceProperties print "Authentication: " + servProp.get('AuthenticationMode', 'N/A')Output: "Authentication: OSA"
So, that part does work. I also revoked permissions for the Oracle OSA reader role and the layer does in fact stop working, as one would hope. The behavior looks right.
you should send in a request as to why, perhaps, most don't care, but at least you have the workaround
serviceProperties in Layer—Help | ArcGIS for Desktop has all kinds of cryptic stuff relating to sde... if it makes any sense to you, then that may be where your answer lies.