Informix SE on Linux
Users running Informix SE on Red Hat Linux 6.0 got error -952 ("user password is not correct for the database server") when connecting via ODBC with a password, though a blank password worked. Art Kagel explained that Informix doesn't work properly when shadow passwords/PAM are enabled, so authentication must fall back to /etc/passwd. Eric Dennis supplied the command: run pwunconv (see its man page) to un-shadow the password file. The poster confirmed this fixed the problem, and another reader independently recommended the same workaround.
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Hello! I have an Informix SE installed on Linux RedHat 6.0 and I have a problem: when I try to connect to this server with ODBC the server returned -952 error (User password is not correct for the database server) but if I let the password blank the connection is OK and the client is working. Why? Thank you!
I have exactly the same problem!! And I do not know what to do.... very shi***y rgds Serafin Vladimir Prodan <vladimir@unitedcapital.ro> schrieb in im Newsbeitrag: 83npc1$r0c$1@news.xmission.com... > > Hello! I have an Informix SE installed on Linux RedHat 6.0 and I have a > problem: when I try to connect to this server with ODBC the server > returned -952 error (User password is not correct for the database > server) but if I let the password blank the connection is OK and the > client is working. Why? Thank you!
Serafin Veloso wrote: > > I have exactly the same problem!! And I do not know what to do.... very > shi***y > > rgds Serafin > > Vladimir Prodan <vladimir@unitedcapital.ro> schrieb in im Newsbeitrag: > 83npc1$r0c$1@news.xmission.com... > > > > Hello! I have an Informix SE installed on Linux RedHat 6.0 and I have a > > problem: when I try to connect to this server with ODBC the server > > returned -952 error (User password is not correct for the database > > server) but if I let the password blank the connection is OK and the > > client is working. Why? Thank you! Informix will not work correctly with shadow password or PAM enabled. You have to switch back to using the /etc/passwd file. Art S. Kagel
Hi Art, thanx for your email... I've deinstalled PAM but how do I switch back to use /etc/passwd Sorry for this question - I'm a Linux newbie.. Serafin > Informix will not work correctly with shadow password or PAM enabled. You > have to switch back to using the /etc/passwd file. > > Art S. Kagel >
If noone answers search the IIUG Archives for CDI it's been posetd before. I do not remember. Art S. Kagel Serafin Veloso wrote: > > Hi Art, > > thanx for your email... > I´ve deinstalled PAM but how do I switch back to use /etc/passwd > > Sorry for this question - I´m a Linux newbie.. > > Serafin > > > Informix will not work correctly with shadow password or PAM enabled. You > > have to switch back to using the /etc/passwd file. > > > > Art S. Kagel > >
Try pwunconv (read the man page for details). --- Eric Dennis (ericd@spam.me.not.comtelligence.net) System Administrator Comtelligence, LLC Serafin Veloso <serafin.veloso@gmx.net> wrote in message news:83op7i$re0$1@newsread.do.de.uu.net... > Hi Art, > > thanx for your email... > I've deinstalled PAM but how do I switch back to use /etc/passwd > > Sorry for this question - I'm a Linux newbie.. > > Serafin > > > Informix will not work correctly with shadow password or PAM enabled. You > > have to switch back to using the /etc/passwd file. > > > > Art S. Kagel > > > > > >
For me too!! Thanks a lot!!!!!! Serafin Eric Dennis <ericd@spam.me.not.comtelligence.net> schrieb in im Newsbeitrag: 83pcl2$7fj@chronicle.concentric.net... > Try pwunconv (read the man page for details). > > --- > Eric Dennis (ericd@spam.me.not.comtelligence.net) > System Administrator > Comtelligence, LLC
Are you or anyone in your newsgroup interested in working as a Informix DBA in Cambridge, MA? If so e-mail your resume to me at sandycarr@mindspring.com Thanks Vladimir Prodan <vladimir@unitedcapital.ro> wrote in message news:83npc1$r0c$1@news.xmission.com... > > Hello! I have an Informix SE installed on Linux RedHat 6.0 and I have a > problem: when I try to connect to this server with ODBC the server > returned -952 error (User password is not correct for the database > server) but if I let the password blank the connection is OK and the > client is working. Why? Thank you!
Serafin Veloso wrote: > > I have exactly the same problem!! And I do not know what to do.... very > shi***y > > rgds Serafin > > Vladimir Prodan <vladimir@unitedcapital.ro> schrieb in im Newsbeitrag: > 83npc1$r0c$1@news.xmission.com... > > > > Hello! I have an Informix SE installed on Linux RedHat 6.0 and I have a > > problem: when I try to connect to this server with ODBC the server > > returned -952 error (User password is not correct for the database > > server) but if I let the password blank the connection is OK and the > > client is working. Why? Thank you! on Linux... try to disabilit the shadows password. Is just a bug.. pwunconv <--command all will run! :) -- Daniele Medri e-mail: madrid@linux.it madrid@erlug.linux.it If a listener nods his head when you're explaining your program, wake him up.