Re: user & group permission
Posted in 1997
David Coburn — — source: Informix-list mailing list archive (1991-1998)
Chris, Nobody but Informix should be a member of the Informix group, last time I checked. This is a pretty large security risk, as it gives users direct access to your db spaces, etc. David >As part of the tightening security plan, I'm somewhat tempted to remove >most of our users from the informix group. Since we mostly use >r4gl, isql, 4gl debugger, it seems backend programs (fglgo blah) are run >ok, even user is not in the informix group. > >So who is really _need_ or _should_ be in the informix group? Development >people sound like the ones, but what if I also remove them from the group? > >Thanks. > >Chris