Re: Informix Connection without Unix ID

In article <918347775.271290494@cornut.fr>, Frederic Bouquet <fbouquet@cornut.fr> wrote: >dave, >you wrote : >>I would like to be able to connect a lot of windows clients (Win95, >>Win3.1) to an unix box without an account (user and password) defined >>for each one in the unix side. I wouldn't like to have a unique user >>for all my clients. >> >>I know that Oracle/Sybase maintain a list of user ids internal to the >>database. Is this possible in Informix? > >Some of our customer use exaclty the configuration you describe here. Only >one Unix account to connect to one or several Informix database. So my answer >is Yes it's possible with Informix . (We do the same with Oracle) I think Dave's question is: does Informix provide its own internal security scheme other than using unix's. >What sort of details do you want exactly ? > >HTH >FB-) >------------------------------------------------------ >Frederic BOUQUET Client/Server & SQL RDBMS >email: fbouquet@cornut.fr http://www.cornut.fr/