Re: Informix 7.23 via NT and Unix security?

phil_yandel@ama-assn.org wrote: > I have heard from the Unix administrators that they > are installing > CA-UniCenter. Would there be some way to use it to > synchronized them (and > how)? Sure. You need to write a little C program that does a setuid. When you find a passwd to be invalid, you can then have the user enter a new passwd, verify, and then let the program update the passwd file using the correct C function calls. (These calls will vary if you are running NIS or NIS+. ) Since you want to sync the passwds, you may have to do some more coding (if you are not running NIS.) Another method, is to create a generic client user id with no login. Then create a USER table, with a field for the encrypted passwd. Then when the user logs in to the app, the app has a passwd and you don't rely upon the UNIX security. (Something Sybase does.) -HTH Mikey BTW, the basic program to change passwds is pretty easy. (You could peek at passwd on Linux for help.) If you want to add security, then it gets a little more complex. If you need to make it distributed and are not running NIS, then it gets a lot more complex. ;-) (But its still not rocket science.... :-) -- #include <std_disclaimer.h> /* Mike Segel (MS385) */ #include <No_Spam.h> #ifdef OFFENDED_BY_CONTENT The author takes no responsibility for this post. Any resembalence to a coherent rational thought is purely coincidence. -The Management. #endif ***************************** * Attention * -*- Due to AGIS's Refusal to Act Responsibly -*- Due to ACSI's Refusal to Act Responsibly We are blocking all of their domains at the packet level. This block will exist until they modify their policies to conform to existing RFCs and net community standards. We encourage all ISPs and domain holders to do the same. *****************************