Re: who can do a dbimport

On 16 Apr 98 at 21:15, wrobelc@belnet.bellevue.k12.w wrote: > I'm the UNIX admin and rather new to Informix. I've been told that do > to a dbimport, one must be logged in using the 'informix' login. As a > UNIX admin, I really question if this is neccessary. I've made a > group 'informix' and the user informix is in that group as are some > users who wanted the 'dbimport' capability. The users 'dbimport' > attempts failed and they think the reason is that they did not do this > as informix. Can someone help with what users can really do a > 'dbimport'? Nnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo!!!! :-) For security reasons, you should _never_ make anyone other than informix a member of group informix. I would be more inclined to think that there was some other permission problem, but you don't have to be informix or group informix to run dbimport. You might want to check the permissions on the .exp directory and its files, also ensure that the permissions on your Informix executables are correct ($INFORMIXDIR/bin/*, $INFORMIXDIR/lib/sqlturbo if you have OnLine 5 and $INFORMIXDIR/lib/sqlexec if you have SE) HTH. -- Ciao, Billy /Group Managing Director, The West Solutions Group: http://www.west.co.za \\ Drivel @ http://www.west.co.za/tasteless/ / \\ "Granted, Mr Wheeler's ideas are stupid and unreasonable, but he does own the company and I / think we should go along with him..." \\________________________________________________________________________________________________