Re: Question about protection of raw partition and shared libraries

Posted in 1992

Walt Hultgren {rmy} — Fri, 28 Feb 92 10:10:19 -0500 — source: Informix-list mailing list archive (1991-1998)

Path: emory!swrinde!mips!spool.mu.edu!agate!apple!voder!pyramid!infmx!markj From: markj@informix.com (Mark Jeske(Chicago Consultan)t) Newsgroups: comp.databases.informix Message-ID: <1992Feb28.012541.18564@informix.com> Date: 28 Feb 92 01:25:41 GMT References: <1992Feb27.000349.7400@inftec.be> Sender: news@informix.com (Usenet News) Organization: Informix Software, Inc. In article <1992Feb27.000349.7400@inftec.be> mike@inftec.be (Mike Aerts) writes: > >I became the sysadmin of a system with Informix ON-LINE 4.0. >I was surprised to see that the protection of the raw partitions >for Informix are crw-rw-rw-. >They told me this was necesary to allow different users to access the >database. > - This means everybody can see what is in the database. > - What happens when someone enter the command : > echo "Hello World" >/dev/informix_partition? > (I think I now the answer : bye-bye database, pray > the Lord you have a recent backup ;-) ) Informix devices for online should be 660 with owner and group informix. mark -- mark jeske (informix consulting) mark@infmx.com 708-699-5850