Question about permissions used on onconfig and sqlhosts files

Posted in 2003

Jonathan Leffler — Fri, 24 Oct 2003 14:53:40 GMT — source: Usenet: comp.databases.informix

A question arose in relation to a bug fix: Do any of the production systems you know of consciously use world write permission on either the $ONCONFIG file or the $INFORMIXSQLHOSTS file? What about non-production systems? If the answer is yes, is there a good justification? If the answer is "not consciously, but yes", is there a reason not to fix it? Thoughts on a post-card - please (ok, either a reply posting or an email direct to me). -- Jonathan Leffler #include <disclaimer.h> Email: jleffler@earthlink.net, jleffler@us.ibm.com Guardian of DBD::Informix v2003.04 -- http://dbi.perl.org/