Re: Is Informix aware of NIS included users

Hi Joerg, AFAIK, I faced the same problem too recently. However, we ran without NIS-enabled. So, to answer your question, does the shadow password feature enabled at your Linux machines? If so, you may need to disable it for them to access it right. FYI, we didn't use .rhosts, but put in the hostname in hosts.equiv in /etc directory. Hope that helps.. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Lawrence Choy Email : choyls@pd.jaring.my ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ----- Original Message ----- From: Joerg Spilker <js@jetsys.de> To: <informix-list@iiug.org> Sent: Saturday, September 11, 1999 1:45 PM Subject: Is Informix aware of NIS included users : Hello, : : is informix aware of users which are not local users on the server where : the sqlexecd is running but are included via NIS. ?? It seems not : because i always get a 952 error. : : User is on machine C and starts dbaccess. He wants to connect not the : local infse@machineA (setting of INFORMIXSERVER variable) but to the : infse@machineB server. He goes to the connection dialogue and chooses : the infse@machineB connection and then typing in the requested username : and password. This is however not a lokal user on machine B but a NIS : user (and the server is on machine A). He always got error 952. : : I traced the sqlexed on machineB. When the user tries to connect, there : is a conversion between machineB and the ypserv on machineC. But : something seems to be wrong as the user is reported as not existing. : : Strange. When the user logs into machine B directly and accesses : infse@machineB everthing is working. : : both machines A and B are running linux (2.2.10 kernel and 2.0.30 : kernel) and informix SE 7.2x. Do i have to put machine C in the .rhosts : file to get it working? : : Greetings, Joerg :