Re: user administration question

shl9@cornell.edu (SteveLutter) wrote: >We don't have Informix at this time, but I have a question concerning the >externally administered users. Are ther tools for administering users in >the operating system and granting the privileges to groups of users in the >database? This appears to be an administrative overhead as opposed to >managing the users internally in the database. It seems that DBAs would >have to have two tools to coordinate adding users and would have to have >root privilegs on the server, something we normally don't want to do. If >you have opinons on the matter I would very much like to hear them. >Steve Lutter >Cornell Information Technologies >shl9@cornell.edu I have to agree. It is a week spot in the Informix configuration management. I beleive the reason they did this was to achieve C2 and B3 security levels through the standard UNIX authentication. (entrican@exo.com)