Re: Help: can one defeat error -951?

Rich Puchalsky (richp@clark.net) wrote: : Hi, I'm using Informix with 4.1x tools, 5.01 Online, and Informix-STAR. : My basic problem is that Informix-STAR only allows one to connect from : one machine to another if one has an account with the same name on both : machines. If you don't have an account on the remote machine, you : get error -951, User is not known on remote host. : My system has about 2000 users. I would like to avoid the system : administration hassles involved in creating accounts for all of them : on every machine in the IX-STAR network. Therefore I would like to : find some way of evading this error. Right now we do it through Unix; : by having the script that calls an Informix tool "su" you to a generic : account name. This is risky and I'd like to eliminate it. I see only two (simple) ways to work around your problem: 1. use /etc/host.equiv (VERY INSECURE) 2. Use a tool like super With super you can setup a list of commands. For every command you can specify the users, allowed to call this command, and the uid/gid, used for the command at runtime. With super you can use your generic account and have a better control about the users, using this account. Manfred ----------------- Manfred Rosenboom Email : Manfred.Rosenboom@mch.sni.de SNI AG, SU AP 2122 D-81739 Muenchen / Germany Phone : +49.89.636-3658 Carl-Wery-Strasse 22 Fax : +49.89.636-44820