Who needs a HOME?
Jon Ritson found the 14.10.FC11W1 installer on openSUSE creates user informix without a home directory. Andreas Legner said that is by design for a service account. Art Kagel suggested sudo usermod --home. For HDR/RSS trust instead of .rhosts, Andreas recommended REMOTE_SERVER_CFG and REMOTE_USERS_CFG (since 11.70).
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Just saying ... OpenSuse ... letting the 14.10.FC11W1 installer create the user informix ... and no $HOME is directory is created. ------------------------------ Jon Ritson ------------------------------
Yep, and it's by design, because "service account". For us non-service-accounts, we'll have to make our nature known to the system ;) ------------------------------ Andreas Legner Informix Dev HCL Software ------------------------------
Hmmm ... so when setting up passwordless ssh for informix ... one is meant to do this off root?? Or where?? (i.e. /.ssh directory) ... or ... if no $HOME then ... how?? Hope you're good Andreas ;) ------------------------------ Jon Ritson ------------------------------
If you need to set up a home directory for user informix, you can always do that after the server has created the user id: sudo usermod --home /home/informix informix Art ------------------------------ Art S. Kagel, President and Principal Consultant ASK Database Management Corp. www.askdbmgt.com ------------------------------
(Let's see if a reply to group works ...) .rhosts too for HDR / RSS But hey, I wonder how many installations run with no $HOME for informix. No worries ... JJ Sent from Outlook for iOS ::DISCLAIMER:: The contents of this e-mail and any attachment(s) are confidential and intended for the named recipient(s) only. E-mail transmission is not guaranteed to be secure or error-free as information could be intercepted, corrupted, lost, destroyed, arrive late or incomplete, or may contain viruses in transmission. The e mail and its contents (with or without referred errors) shall therefore not attach any liability on the originator or HCL or its affiliates. Views or opinions, if any, presented in this email are solely those of the author and may not necessarily reflect the views or opinions of HCL or its affiliates. Any form of reproduction, dissemination, copying, disclosure, modification, distribution and / or publication of this message without the prior written consent of authorized representative of HCL is strictly prohibited. If you have received this email in error please delete it and notify the sender immediately. Before opening any email and/or attachments, please check them for viruses and other defects.
.rhosts, .... for HDR/RSS ... sooo last century Only /etc/hosts.equiv is worse. But hey, who besides us would even still know about those. ------------------------------ Andreas Legner Informix Dev HCL Software ------------------------------
Thanks for the reply Andreas ... are you saying there is a better / more current approach to .rhosts (and .ssh)? i.e. If I let the installer create informix with no $HOME, then what is the approach for HDR / RSS for the trust? JJ ------------------------------ Jon Ritson ------------------------------
Informix-only level trust through REMOTE_SERVER_CFG and/or REMOTE_USERS_CFG, since early 11.70... ------------------------------ Andreas Legner Informix Dev HCL Software ------------------------------