Re: Informix Problem - Please Help Urgently

Hi, besides password shadowing (which I think actually should not cause such problems), it can be the password encryption method that causes such a problem. Online 5 only supports the classic UNIX encryption method for passwords (as implemented in the "crypt()" system call). On Linux there are several other methods available. E.g. for some time MD5 was quite popular and configured by default. As IDS takes the password from user and encrypts it with crypt() to compare with the encrypted password (from /etc/passwd or /etc/shadow or NIS/NIS+), they will not match if the system uses a different encryption method ... Still another reason may be password expiration settings. Although these were rare circumstances and the problem should be fixed by now (or never existed in Online 5). Regards, Martin -- owner-informix-list@iiug.org wrote on 07/20/2005 11:03:27 PM: > > Rahul Joshi said: > > Hello All > > > > I have been facing a strange problem with Informix Database server > > engine on Linux. > > > > Version of Informix Online Server - 5.10 UD1 > > Red Hat Linux 7.3 > > Password shadowing? Is it on? If so -- switch it off. > > > I could install and bring the engine online. The system has some > > Linux users who have different access privileges to some of the > > informix online databases. The problem I am facing is : When I change > > the password of any of the users, or if any of the users changes his > > password himself, the informix databases to which he had accees to > > before doing this, suddenly become inaccessible. He cannot even > > connect to the databases, and fire any queries to the database. > > > > I am not sure if this has anything to do with , synchronizing > > Linux and Informix access in some way, or making the users > > trusted-users etc. Any help in this regards would be greatly > > appreciated. You can contact me by e mail, if you need any further > > details on this problem.. > > > > Thanks in Advance > > > > Sincerely > > > > Rahul Gopal Joshi > > > > sending to informix-list > > > > > -- > > Bye now, > Obnoxio > > "C'est pas parce qu'on n'a rien ' dire qu'il faut fermer sa gueule" > - Coluche > > A smile is a gift that is free to the giver and precious to the recipient. > But giving someone the finger is free too, and I find it more personal and > sincere. > sending to informix-list sending to informix-list