Re: How to run Informix as a normal/unprivileged "informix" user?

If you have a recent version of IDS 10 or higher (10.00.TC5 or later), you can change the IDS service to start as the local SYSTEM user. Then you can take informix out of the Administrators group (but leave it in the Informix-Admin group). Guy ----- Original Message ---- From: "kdobrev@gmail.com" <kdobrev@gmail.com> To: informix-list@iiug.org Sent: Monday, October 22, 2007 7:23:08 AM Subject: How to run Informix as a normal/unprivileged "informix" user? By default the user informix is in the admiistrators group, which is a security hole. if somebody compromises the database he will an administrative account for the whole server. My question is how do I run Informix IDS (10) when the informix user is member of the Users group, but not of the Administrators? Thanks in advance. _______________________________________________ Informix-list mailing list Informix-list@iiug.org http://www.iiug.org/mailman/listinfo/informix-list __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com

I'm using Windows Server 2003 Standart. I have tried to make Informix member of Users instead of member of Administrators, but a user cannot start services. I have given the right to login as service, but still no luck. Making the IDS start with SYSTEM account is even worse than starting it with as an administrator of the system. Any other suggestions?