Re: Can't authenticate to Online: password incorrect?

Im Artikel <347170D1.EEBF281D@echonyc.com>, Cosmo Lee <"* N O - S P A M * cosmo"@echonyc.com> schreibt: >We are running Online 7.22 on Unixware 2.1, Compaq Proliant 1500. > >Users are able to telnet into the system and fire up `dbaccess`. >However, suddenly, they cannot access Online via their Delphi front-end >program, even though they are typing in the same login and passwords as >when they telnet in. > > >At the PC end the users see the following error messages: > > [Intersolv][ODBC Informix driver] > [Informix]User's password is not correct for the database server. > [Intersolv][OBDC Informix driver] > [Informix] No such file or directory. Alias: debit. > > > >The following error appears in the online.log file after an unsuccessful >attempt is made: > > 14:13:53 listener-thread: err = -952: User's password is not >correct for > the database server. > > > >Since these messages appear in the backend Online.log file, I assume >that the connectivity is not the issue - they are definitely connecting >to Online, at least for an authentication attempt. > >I'm not sure how the authentication process works when logging in via >Online, but I imagine that Online passes the login: and password: data >on to the OS for checking if the passwords are correct. What goes on >between Online and the OS that could be mis-operational??? > > >The only thing that has changed, as far as I can recall, is that we >upgraded from Online 7.21 to Online 7.22. But this shouldn't have had >any effect on the login process, right??? > >Thanx. > >-- You have to trust your client to unix. Create the same user on unix as you logged in onto your client and modify /etc/hosts.equiv. greetings volker