Re: Informix 5.0.UD1 on Solaris 2.1

In article <C6H4wH.56w@cwi.com> tony@cwi.com (Tony Chang ) writes: >Informix OnLine 5.0.UD1 under Solaris 2.1 > .... > >The response from the support engineer working with me was that >the version of Informix that I am running with has a bug (#16449) >in accessing information from the NIS server as a result, the >above symptom. The workaround he recommended is to eliminate the >use of NIS (formerly known as Yellow Pages). As this is not Ah, Informix and NIS. They just fixed a similar problem on our 4.1.whatever running on HP-UX with NIS. Our work around before the fix was to add into /etc/passwd the user who needed to use Informix. We added the real password entry from NIS after the "+:::0" line, so that user will still login using NIS. but informix, the buggy version that is, does not understand the "+:" password syntax and read the rest of the file looking for the user. note also that "+user" does not work either, informix was looking for a exact login match without the "+" sign. worth a shot to try see if this is it. -- Sam Lok Pacific*Bell, California sslok@srv.PacBell.Com --- __o --- -\\<, The price one pays for pursuing any profession, or calling, --- (_)/(_). is an intimate knowledge of its ugly side. -- James Baldwin