RE: permission

I have a biassed view of the value of this suggestion since I wrote the code, but I suggest going to the IIUG web site and pulling out the code under the name 'utils_jl' from the database administration section of the software archive at http://www.iiug.org. It includes a script to check the permissions on the various files, and another to set the permissions. You say you have checked the permissions against the files list - did you also check the owner and group? I'd assume so, but I need to ask because the error messages indicate that the permissions are wrong. The fact that it works as informix and not as johndoe strongly suggests that either the files which should be owned by root aren't owned by root, or their SUID-ness is missing, or is not working. One other thing that could screw you up is if the software is on an NFS-mounted file system which is mounted without SUID privileges - a security measure, but in this case, a misguided security measure. Yours, Jonathan Leffler (jleffler@visa.com) #include <bother.ms-exchange.h> ---------- From: Maria L. Wilson[SMTP:m.l.wilson@larc.nasa.gov] Sent: Tuesday, April 07, 1998 8:40 AM To: informix-list Subject: permission Hi all, I have informix 7.23 on Solaris 2.6 and am having the following problem... As user informix, I can access any tools installed and do any of the onstat, oncheck, etc commands with no problems. As a user, I can access tools fine (dbaccess, esql, etc..) but if i try to do any of the onstat commands or onmonitor i get the following error: onstat: Shared memory: permission denied. when I try to get into onmonitor, it says nothing just returns my cursor. I have checked permissions in bin and compared them to the onlinefiles file but they all look the same. I also tried to re-install IDS, CLI and Connect in the order 1.CLI - 2.5 2.IDS - 7.23 3.Connect - 7.23 and I'm not getting anywhere. Any help would be appreciated..... Maria -------------------------------------------------------- Maria L. Wilson 757.766.8265 Computer Sciences Corporation 757.766.2571 fax NASA Langley Research Center m.l.wilson@larc.nasa.gov 3217 North Armistead Ave. http://www.larc.nasa.gov Hampton, Va 23666 -------------------------------------------------------- If there is no God, who pops up the next Kleenex? -- Art Hoppe --------------------------------------------------------