How is ID validated

Posted in 1997

Jon C Vemo — 20 Aug 1997 16:38:10 -0400 — source: Informix-list mailing list archive (1991-1998)

I have a question. I'm writing a utility to allow a non-DBA user to execute database grant/revoke statements. I assumed that the engine used UID to validate the user for DBA priv's, but this doesn't seem to be the case (my utility successfully sets the UID to that of user informix). Does anyone know how/or what the engine uses to validate a user as an owner or DBA?? Thanks Jon ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- --- Jon C. Vemo "Life is like a dogsled team, if you ain't the jvemo@cyberspace.com lead dog the scenery never changes." ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---