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dbaccess problem

Posted in 2000

Topics: Connectivity: ODBC / JDBC / .NET, Server Administration, Security, Permissions & Auditing, Platform-Specific Issues, Versions, Editions & End-of-Life

W. J. Hsu — — source: Informix-list mailing list archive (1991-1998)

Hello everyone, I encounter the ODBC problem on IDS 7.3 linux edition trial version. The system always complained password incorrect when I tried to connect to database server from PC. Anyway, I made a test on dbaccess utility. I try to connect to local database server by generic user account. The system complained with : 952: User's password is not correct for the database server. When I change the account to 'root', then every thing looks fine. I can open any database without any problem. Can some one tell me why? I appreciated any input or suggestion.

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bartman — — source: Informix-list mailing list archive (1991-1998)

Your problem is called password shadowing. You will have to turn of password shadowing, to allow your configured users to connect to the database. use /usr/sbin/pwunconv to change password shadowing. Bartho "W. J. Hsu" <wjhsu@pti.com.tw> wrote in message news:8g37s0$l36@netnews.hinet.net... > Hello everyone, > > I encounter the ODBC problem on IDS 7.3 linux edition trial version. > The system always complained password incorrect when I tried to > connect to database server from PC. Anyway, I made a test on dbaccess > utility. I try to connect to local database server by generic user account. > The system complained with : > > 952: User's password is not correct for the database server.> > When I change the account to 'root', then every thing looks fine. I can > open any database without any problem. > > Can some one tell me why? I appreciated any input or suggestion. > > >

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