RE: Is there any way to disable password aging? IDS 7.3

We are having the opposite problem with IDS 7.3 on AIX. Users can connect through ODBC and access database tables even when: 1. Their AIX account is locked; or 2. Their AIX password has expired and must be changed at their next AIX login. (I.E. Informix allows them to continue using the "old" password indefinitely). Is anyone aware of a method of preventing access in case #1 and forcing them to change their UNIX password in case #2. Your assistance would be appreciated. Rick Bernstein Alaris Medical Systems -----Original Message----- From: John F Miller III [mailto:jmiller@informix.com] Sent: Wednesday, October 07, 1998 14:55 To: informix-list@iiug.org Subject: Re: Is there any way to disable password aging? IDS 7.3 David Ferguson wrote: > We are running Informix Dynamic Server Version 7.30.UC3 on various > Solaris 2.6 hosts. We have the problem that after a user has logged on, > his password can expire and he can no longer attach to the database. > This problem is much worse if the user schedules a critical job to run in the > next day or two and his password expires before he logs in again. > > In our application, we use "EXEC SQL DATABASE $db_name;" to > connect the user to the server. > > This appears to be a new "feature" of IDS 7.3. > > Any suggestions? David: I believe that you are running into bug 100622 which is specific to Solaris 2.6. There does exists a workaround which is to age the password by date and not the number of days. Hope this helps, ---jmiller John Miller