Re: Can't authenticate to Online: password incorrect?

VFraenkle wrote in message <19971126185000.NAA11897@ladder02.news.aol.com>... >Im Artikel <347170D1.EEBF281D@echonyc.com>, Cosmo Lee <"* N O - S P A M * >cosmo"@echonyc.com> schreibt: > >>We are running Online 7.22 on Unixware 2.1, Compaq Proliant 1500. I had the same problem with ODS 7.22 on SCO OpenServer. >> >>Users are able to telnet into the system and fire up `dbaccess`. >>However, suddenly, they cannot access Online via their Delphi front-end >>program, even though they are typing in the same login and passwords as >>when they telnet in ... >> 14:13:53 listener-thread: err = -952: User's password is not >>correct for >> the database server. ... >You have to trust your client to unix. Create the same user on unix as you >logged in onto your client and modify /etc/hosts.equiv. My solution is much easier - users passwords MUST be up to 8 characters (or exactly 8). I don't know why - but it works! And I haven't any hosts.equiv files. > >greetings volker