Re: One user ID for all users

Kevin/Jun In a past life, I had designed an access module that will allow all users of the system to log in with the same Unix userid, but the access module will save the user's sessionid in the database. When the user exited the application, the record would be deleted. HTH Sujit Jun Nolasco <nolasco@inx.net> on 11/01/2000 07:43:31 PM Please respond to Jun Nolasco <nolasco@inx.net> To: informix-list@iiug.org cc: Subject: Re: One user ID for all users 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