Re: who can do a dbimport

Chuck Any unix user can do a dbimport but he ends up owning the database. Although he owns the database the table owner may still be informix provided the tables have been created as CREATE TABLE "informix".tablename. One place where they may have problems is if the disk area where they are dbimporting from/dbexporting to does not have Unix write permissions, they would get an error: Cannot create message file which is telling you that they cant write db[im|ex]port.out file. HTH Sujit Pal ______________________________ Reply Separator _________________________________ Subject: who can do a dbimport Author: wrobelc@belnet.bellevue.k12.wa.us at Internet Date: 4/16/98 9:15 PM Hi, I'm the UNIX admin and rather new to Informix. I've been told that do to a dbimport, one must be logged in using the 'informix' login. As a UNIX admin, I really question if this is neccessary. I've made a group 'informix' and the user informix is in that group as are some users who wanted the 'dbimport' capability. The users 'dbimport' attempts failed and they think the reason is that they did not do this as informix. Can someone help with what users can really do a 'dbimport'? Chuck