One user ID for all users

Posted in 2000

Kevin J. Burdish — Mon, 30 Oct 2000 13:58:14 -0500 — source: Informix-list mailing list archive (1991-1998)

Hey gang! The System Admistrator and the Application Developer here want to get all users to log in with the same UNIX user ID for the application. This would make their lives easier... In turn I'm sure this will make my life harder (as it usually does!) especially when trying to track down who has something locked etc. Can someone give me the pros and cons of doing this? I know Pro: we don't have to add and delete UNIX user id's every time a new user wants to use the system. and Con: It may not be possible to track down who has a lock on something, who is using more resources etc. I'm sure there is a lot more, but can anybody advise me on what they have done?? Please respond to kevin_burdish@timeinc.com as well as to the newsgroup. Thanks in advance! Kevin

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Neil Truby — Mon, 30 Oct 2000 20:05:13 -0000 — source: Informix-list mailing list archive (1991-1998)

>> > and Con: It may not be possible to track down who has a lock on > something, who is using more resources etc. It's not going to be desperately easy to enforce application security either, is it?! Kevin J. Burdish <kevin_burdish@timeinc.com> wrote in message news:39FDC4C6.682980FE@timeinc.com... > Hey gang! > The System Admistrator and the Application Developer here want to get > all users to log in with the same UNIX user ID for the application. This > would make their lives easier... In turn I'm sure this will make my life > harder (as it usually does!) > especially when trying to track down who has something locked etc. Can > someone give me the pros and cons of doing this? > I know Pro: we don't have to add and delete UNIX user id's every time a > new user wants to use the system. > and Con: It may not be possible to track down who has a lock on > something, who is using more resources etc. > > I'm sure there is a lot more, but can anybody advise me on what they > have done?? > > Please respond to kevin_burdish@timeinc.com as well as to the newsgroup. > > Thanks in advance! > Kevin > >

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Jun Nolasco — Wed, 01 Nov 2000 22:43:31 -0500 — source: Informix-list mailing list archive (1991-1998)

Which begs the the question: how do people implement security for applications with 100 users? 1,000 users? 10,000 users? Jun Nolasco "Kevin J. Burdish" wrote: > > Hey gang! > The System Admistrator and the Application Developer here want to get > all users to log in with the same UNIX user ID for the application. This > would make their lives easier... In turn I'm sure this will make my life > harder (as it usually does!) > especially when trying to track down who has something locked etc. Can > someone give me the pros and cons of doing this? > I know Pro: we don't have to add and delete UNIX user id's every time a > new user wants to use the system. > and Con: It may not be possible to track down who has a lock on > something, who is using more resources etc. > > I'm sure there is a lot more, but can anybody advise me on what they > have done?? > > Please respond to kevin_burdish@timeinc.com as well as to the newsgroup. > > Thanks in advance! > Kevin