Re: Can oninit be run from a shell?

Val'ry <valou@hotmail.com> schrieb im Beitrag <01bc4735$2531f100$250902c2@val-ry>... > There is one solution for what you want: > Change ouy shell's owner and group to informix:informix > and issue a chmod +s on your shell (sticky bit). > Then, anyone executing your shell will be given informix's identity (and > will have the rights to execute oninit...) Sorry, but this will not work on all UNIX platforms. Several UNIX's accept the "setuid-bit" only for compiled executables, but not for shell scripts. Peter Schneider, speeking for my own! > Jonathan Leffler <johnl@informix.com> wrote in article > <5ik3h3$did@cssun.mathcs.emory.edu>... > > No, normally root or informix runs it; your system seems to have been > > installed with role separation enabled so that it is the DBSA (database > > administrator) who has to do it. > > > > }From: nws@stout.atd.ucar.edu (Eddie Roberts) > > }Date: 10 Apr 1997 18:59:12 GMT > > }X-Informix-List-Id: <news.36420> > > } > > }Is there anyway a "normal - non priveledged" user can run oninit from > > }a shell script? [...] > > } > > }BUT, I get the following error message: > > } "Must be a DBSA to run this program"