Re: Informix Login

Shaun Lovick <shaunl@str.com> wrote: :Does anyone have any experience with connecting to Informix through a 4gl :tool (in this case, Powerbuilder) when the security is at the operating :system level(unix HP 10.2). We can connect fine if there are no errors :with the password, account being disabled, etc. When there is a problem :we always receive the same error code back regardless of the problem. :The only soluation we came up with is to write some kind of telnet app to :actually log the user in and check for any errors. We also have the same :problem with changing a user's password from a 4gl application. Since :the passwd command is interactive, we cannot call it using the system :command from an Informix Stored Procedures. :Sorry if this is confusing, but I needed to do a brain dump and see if :anyone has any ideas. These problems have been extensively discussed here in c.d.i not so long ago. You might want to search the archives at http://www.iiug.org or on http://www.dejanews.com Ask again if you don't find anything. And by all means post your solution! Nils.Myklebust@idg.no NM Data AS, P.O.Box 9090 Gronland, N-0133 Oslo, Norway My opinions are those of my company The Informix FAQ is at http://www.iiug.org