Re: Database security

Posted in 1991

Greg Bryan — Fri, 11 Oct 91 10:37:09 PDT — source: Informix-list mailing list archive (1991-1998)

> In article <503@rand.mel.cocam.oz.au>, shaneb@auzodt3.mel.cocam.oz.au (Shane Booth) writes: > Does anyone know a way to allow users to run a 4GL application that inserts > and deletes from a database, but to disallow the users from altering the data > by running isql? Here we run Informix-4GL version 4.00.UC1 for Sco Unix. Several solutions have been proposed based on setting the effective UID of the 4GL program to be different than that of the actual UID. Unfortunately, Informix checks the actual UID, not the effective UID for security purposes. ------------ DHL WORLDWIDE EXPRESS ------------------------------------------- Greg Bryan gbryan@ssf-sys.dhl.com DHL Systems Data Administrator uunet!ssf-sys.dhl.com!gbryan San Francisco -------------------------------------------------------------------------------