Only CAPITAL Usernames for granting access under SE / UW2.x
Posted in 1995
Topics: Security, Permissions & Auditing
Hi all, I have a question concerning Informix SE under UnixWare 2.x: Whenever I try to grant access to a database and the tables for other users (gid=informix), the usernames are saved in CAPITAL letters in the system dbs. This results to that the lowercase login users are not allowed to access the database - in essence *all* users - (No, read-write premissions for the .dbs and .log are ok for gid=informix), whereas for users with capital login names everything works fine !! What kind of bullsh*t is this ? Is this the same for all SE platforms ? Ok, I made a nice little patch for myself which tolower() 's all usernames in the system dbs and that works ok, but I wonder that there is no patch available for this. At least my informix dealer knew nothing about this. BTW: Are there any patches available for the SE/UW2.x, and if yes where ? TIA, vasu -- ================================================================================ = Internet: vasu@physik.uni-osnabrueck.de = = 2B || !2B William Shakespeare = \\============================Vasu=Chandrasekhara===============================/