Re: bad password error -951 in Server Studio

Fernando - Thanks for the reply - I checked on things and this is what I found..... Are you sure that the local database machine recognizes that user? I can log into the machine just fine... and run dbaccess from the command line. I should note that I also get this error when trying to connect with user informix Are you sure ssh is not authenticating the user against some other mechanism (LDAP for example)? no ldap or other authentication Does the user exist in /etc/passwd? Are you sure that "oninit" can access the file? yes - the user is in /etc/passwd permissions are: -rw-r--r--. 1 root root 1707 Jun 28 09:31 passwd Do you use SE-Linux? se-linux was running. we shut it down but that didnt fix the problem. Is that a regular instance or a "private installation"? this is just a regular vanilla install of IDS 11.7 Is oninit running as root/with setuid? most of the oninit processes are running as root, so I would say yes. Any other ideas? Thanks Laurie Laurie Gustin Database Administrator Dept of Technology Services Dept of Public Safety lgustin@utah.gov 801-965-4410 >>> Fernando Nunes <domusonline@gmail.com> 6/28/2012 11:27 AM >>> Error -951, seen on the online log has nothing to do with .rhosts and no one should put things in .rhosts if it's not needed. Error -951 (this will not sound right) means the user does not exist. And yes, I've read the ssh test... Are you sure that the local database machine recognizes that user? Are you sure ssh is not authenticationg the user against some other mechanism (LDAP for example)? Does the user exist in /etc/passwd? Are you sure that "oninit" can access the file? Do you use SE-Linux? And do you use ldap? Is that a regular instance or a "private installation"? Is oninit running as root/with setuid? Regards On Thu, Jun 28, 2012 at 6:05 PM, Goldrick, Jim <jgoldrick@judsonu.edu> wrote: I think you get that error if you don’t have your .rhosts file setup. Informix requires the .rhosts to have the remove host name in it. I generally do it in the user’s home directory/.rhosts file. Thank you, Jim Goldrick System Admin Judson University 1151 N. State St. Elgin, IL 60123 (573) 979-9079 ( tel:%28573%29%20979-9079 ) Reminder: Judson University IT will never ask for your password or other personal information over email. jgoldrick@judsonu.edu ( mailto:brichardson@judsonu.edu ) From:informix-list-bounces@iiug.org [mailto:informix-list-bounces@iiug.org] On Behalf Of Laurie Gustin Sent: Thursday, June 28, 2012 11:43 AM To: informix-list@iiug.org Subject: bad password error -951 in Server Studio This seems straight forward... hopefully someone knows a quick answer. IDS 11.7 FC5 Red Hat Enterprise Server release 6.3 (Santiago) Trying to connect through Server Studio. Testing the database connection gets the following errors: 10:05:06 Get Shadow Password for user [lgustin] failed! 10:05:06 Check for password aging/account lock-out. 10:05:06 listener-thread: err = -951: oserr = 0: errstr = lgustin@111.111.111.111: Incorrect password or user lgustin@111.111.111.111 is not known on the database server. The test for the ssh connection goes through fine. Which means the username and password really are correct. I'm thinking it has to do with access to the /etc/shadow file which has permissions 000 (and needs to stay that way). Any ideas? Thanks Laurie _______________________________________________ Informix-list mailing list Informix-list@iiug.org http://www.iiug.org/mailman/listinfo/informix-list -- Fernando Nunes Portugal http://informix-technology.blogspot.com My email wor ks... but I don't check it frequently...

On 6/28/2012 3:25 PM, Laurie Gustin wrote: > Fernando - > Thanks for the reply - I checked on things and this is what I found..... > Are you sure that the local database machine recognizes that user? > I can log into the machine just fine... and run dbaccess from the > command line. I should note that I also get this error when trying to > connect with user informix > Are you sure ssh is not authenticating the user against some other > mechanism (LDAP for example)? > no ldap or other authentication > > Does the user exist in /etc/passwd? Are you sure that "oninit" can > access the file? > yes - the user is in /etc/passwd permissions are: -rw-r--r--. 1 > root root 1707 Jun 28 09:31 passwd > > Do you use SE-Linux? > se-linux was running. we shut it down but that didnt fix the problem. > Is that a regular instance or a "private installation"? > this is just a regular vanilla install of IDS 11.7 > Is oninit running as root/with setuid? > most of the oninit processes are running as root, so I would say yes. > Any other ideas? Is the IP address in the log file a real address? I'm wondering if there is an issue with DNS resolution . . . JWC