Informix vs. TCB

After converting an HP-UX application package to use T.C.B. password validation, I found that the Informix server would no longer accept requests. It issues error -951, meaning that it cannot validate the user. Respawning the server did not help. From my investigations into T.C.B., HP-UX 11 does not appear to have any compatible validation interface; applications must be rewritten to use the T.C.B. database if present. This seems drastic! Can Informix be made compatible with T.C.B.? By the way, the requests are local; $INFORMIXSERVER has no "@" and we don't use ~/.netrc. -:- "Hey, Rocky! Watch me pull a UNIX program out of my source directory!" "AGAIN?" "Nothin' up my sleeve ... PRESTO!" IDENTIFICATION DIVISION. AUTHOR-NAME. B. J. MOOSE, FROSTBYTE DATA SYS. SOURCE-COMPUTER. IBM-7044. OBJECT-COMPUTER. IBM-7044. . . . "No doubt about it--I gotta get a new source directory!" -- G. L. Sicherman work: sicherman@lucent.com home: colonel@mail.monmouth.com