err = -951
A user on IDS 11.7FC8 / HP-UX 11.31 couldn't make an ODBC connection, with the server log showing "listener-thread: err = -951 ... Incorrect password or user not known on the database server". Art Kagel suggested the usual cause is an untrusted client host connecting without a password, but Fernando Nunes countered that since the message came from the server log, a -951 there means Informix couldn't read the user's OS account data (a trust problem would show -956), and asked whether the product was properly installed (root vs non-root), whether files were merely copied, whether some security mechanism blocks oninit from reading user info, and for an ls -l of $INFORMIXDIR/bin. The original poster did not reply, so no resolution is recorded in the thread.
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IFDS 11.7FC8 HHP-UX B.11.31 We have installed IDS 11.7FC8 on a new HP server. I am trying to set up an ODBC connection but get the following error: listener-thread: err = -951: oserr = 0: errstr = <username>: Incorrect password or user <username> is not known on the database server. We are not using a shadow file on os level. Is this a unix problem or Informix and how do I fix it ?
Usually you get a -951 error if the user's host is not trusted on the server and is trying to connect to the server without a password. Art Art S. Kagel, President and Principal Consultant ASK Database Management www.askdbmgt.com Blog: http://informix-myview.blogspot.com/ Disclaimer: Please keep in mind that my own opinions are my own opinions and do not reflect on the IIUG, nor any other organization with which I am associated either explicitly, implicitly, or by inference. Neither do those opinions reflect those of other individuals affiliated with any entity with which I am affiliated nor those of the entities themselves. On Thu, Jul 7, 2016 at 10:48 AM, FLIP VAN WYNGAARDT <flipv@raf.co.za> wrote: > IFDS 11.7FC8 > HHP-UX B.11.31 > > We have installed IDS 11.7FC8 on a new HP server. > > I am trying to set up an ODBC connection but get the following error: > > listener-thread: err = -951: oserr = 0: errstr = <username>: Incorrect > password or user <username> is not known on the database server. > > We are not using a shadow file on os level. > > Is this a unix problem or Informix and how do I fix it ? > > > > ******************************************************************************* > Forum Note: Use "Reply" to post a response in the discussion forum. > > --001a1143e798b6a87405370cf3fe
Did you installed the software (Informix) properly or did you copied it?
Are you using some sort of security mechanism that may be preventing oninit
to access user information?
Did you do a root or non-root installation?
Can you show us an "ls -l $INFORMIXDIR/bin"?
Regards
On Thu, Jul 7, 2016 at 3:48 PM, FLIP VAN WYNGAARDT <flipv@raf.co.za> wrote:
> IFDS 11.7FC8
> HHP-UX B.11.31
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> We have installed IDS 11.7FC8 on a new HP server.
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> I am trying to set up an ODBC connection but get the following error:
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> listener-thread: err = -951: oserr = 0: errstr = <username>: Incorrect
> password or user <username> is not known on the database server.
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> We are not using a shadow file on os level.
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> Is this a unix problem or Informix and how do I fix it ?
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> Forum Note: Use "Reply" to post a response in the discussion forum.
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Fernando Nunes
Portugal
http://informix-technology.blogspot.com
My email works... but I don't check it frequently...
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From the output, the error seems to have been copied from the server log. And in that case a 951 error means the user data could not be accessed by Informix. If it was a trust problem we would see a -956 error (and a -951 on client side) Regards. On Thu, Jul 7, 2016 at 4:00 PM, Art Kagel <art.kagel@gmail.com> wrote: > Usually you get a -951 error if the user's host is not trusted on the > server and is trying to connect to the server without a password. > > Art > > Art S. Kagel, President and Principal Consultant > ASK Database Management > www.askdbmgt.com > > Blog: http://informix-myview.blogspot.com/ > > Disclaimer: Please keep in mind that my own opinions are my own opinions > and do not reflect on the IIUG, nor any other organization with which I am > associated either explicitly, implicitly, or by inference. Neither do > those opinions reflect those of other individuals affiliated with any > entity with which I am affiliated nor those of the entities themselves. > > On Thu, Jul 7, 2016 at 10:48 AM, FLIP VAN WYNGAARDT <flipv@raf.co.za> > wrote: > > > IFDS 11.7FC8 > > HHP-UX B.11.31 > > > > We have installed IDS 11.7FC8 on a new HP server. > > > > I am trying to set up an ODBC connection but get the following error: > > > > listener-thread: err = -951: oserr = 0: errstr = <username>: Incorrect > > password or user <username> is not known on the database server. > > > > We are not using a shadow file on os level. > > > > Is this a unix problem or Informix and how do I fix it ? > > > > > > > > > > ******************************************************************************* > > Forum Note: Use "Reply" to post a response in the discussion forum. > > > > > > --001a1143e798b6a87405370cf3fe > > > > ******************************************************************************* > Forum Note: Use "Reply" to post a response in the discussion forum. > > -- Fernando Nunes Portugal http://informix-technology.blogspot.com My email works... but I don't check it frequently... --94eb2c05665c1f105f05370cffbb