Re: Now I've seen it all

Posted in 2004

Andrew Hamm — Wed, 14 Jul 2004 10:58:11 +1000 — source: Usenet: comp.databases.informix

malcolm weallans wrote: > > Does anybody have any ideas of what we might have > missed? Permissions of ALL the files in $INFORMIXDIR? You can apply a dumb little shell script which reads the etc/*files and (re)sets the permissions on all the installation files. Issues with suid can matter. What about user id's and groups? Does informix have it's own userid and group id, and no other account shares that uid or gid? Is informix only in group informix and no other group? My only guess is a very weak one - where the suid nature of onmonitor somehow magically affects the effective ids of the oninit's it invokes.