Re: Running Utilities as anothe

John, I had a similar problem with letting others run ontape - I didn't want to give out the informix password. I wrote a program which does an "su informix" and then executes whichever informix utility, passing on the command-line parms. The user does not have to know the informix password. In fact, they don't even have to know that they are becoming "informix". The su only affects the process executing the command, thus the user does not get the chance to do anything dangerous with the more-powerful id. Check it out in the software archives of IIUG (http://www.iiug.org). It is stored there as "suontape". I have modified it at various times to run oncheck and onmode, so I know it works for them. Mark Collins mcollins@us.dhl.com ============================================== We are trying to implement Maestro, which is a scheduling package which is supposed to run all of our batch, scripts, etc.. We currently have it running our backups through onarchive, but our next step is to be able to run onchecks and update statistics through the tool. I believe to be able to run these commands, the user has to be INFORMIX, but if some one has a way around this, so that another user can run them, I would appreciate their input. One way which I don't want to implement is to " su - informix" then provide the password, this would mean having the password hardcoded, and against our policy. Thanks in advance JP