Re: -952 Authentication Error on Solaris 10

On Mar 26, 4:41 pm, nate...@kc.rr.com wrote: > I'm running IDS 9.40.FC9 on two new Solaris 10 DB servers - one for > prod, one for test. The prod one is live and functioning OK. I'm in > the process of setting up the test one (a little backwards, I know, > but there are reasons...). I can log into the test box through SSH > with informix and a couple of different accounts used by the > application. I can open dbaccess and run SQL commands just fine. > However, when I attempt to connect from a Windows server via ODBC or > ILoginDemo, I get a -952 error that the password validation failed. > Here is the message that appears in the online log: > Password validation for user [nate] failed! > Check for password aging/account lock-out. > listener-thread: err = -952: oserr = 0: errstr = nate: User (nate)'s > password is not correct for the database server. > I'm at a loss as to how I can SSH into the server, but still get an > authentication error when I try to connect to Informix with the same > account information. Any thoughts or ideas would be greatly > appreciated. > Thanks, > Nate I never did figure out what the root cause of the problem was. We ended up restoring an OS backup from prod to test, and after restoring a Level 0 backup to the test DB server everything started working. Thanks for all the suggestions. -Nate

On Mar 31, 6:04 pm, nate...@kc.rr.com wrote: > On Mar 26, 4:41 pm, nate...@kc.rr.com wrote: > > > > > I'm running IDS 9.40.FC9 on two new Solaris 10 DB servers - one for > > prod, one for test. The prod one is live and functioning OK. I'm in > > the process of setting up the test one (a little backwards, I know, > > but there are reasons...). I can log into the test box through SSH > > with informix and a couple of different accounts used by the > > application. I can open dbaccess and run SQL commands just fine. > > However, when I attempt to connect from a Windows server via ODBC or > > ILoginDemo, I get a -952 error that the password validation failed. > > Here is the message that appears in the online log: > > Password validation for user [nate] failed! > > Check for password aging/account lock-out. > > listener-thread: err = -952: oserr = 0: errstr = nate: User (nate)'s > > password is not correct for the database server. > > I'm at a loss as to how I can SSH into the server, but still get an > > authentication error when I try to connect to Informix with the same > > account information. Any thoughts or ideas would be greatly > > appreciated. > > Thanks, > > Nate > > I never did figure out what the root cause of the problem was. We > ended up restoring an OS backup from prod to test, and after restoring > a Level 0 backup to the test DB server everything started working. > Thanks for all the suggestions. > -Nate Ok. That's one way to take care of it. ;-)

We had 2 users that could not connect to the database. Both of these users connect from Windoze via ODBC. I could ssh using these accounts with no problems. What we found was that JASS had changed the encryption in /etc/security/policy.conf and this line needed to be uncommented CRYPT_ALGORITHMS_DEPRECATE=__unix__ we recreated the users (& passwords) before commenting it out again. HTH Regards Colin There are 10 types of people in the world, those that understand binary and those that don't > From: im_gumby@hotmail.com > Subject: Re: -952 Authentication Error on Solaris 10 > Date: Wed, 1 Apr 2009 08:57:35 -0700 > To: informix-list@iiug.org > > On Mar 31, 6:04 pm, nate...@kc.rr.com wrote: > > On Mar 26, 4:41 pm, nate...@kc.rr.com wrote: > > > > > > > > > I'm running IDS 9.40.FC9 on two new Solaris 10 DB servers - one for > > > prod, one for test. The prod one is live and functioning OK. I'm in > > > the process of setting up the test one (a little backwards, I know, > > > but there are reasons...). I can log into the test box through SSH > > > with informix and a couple of different accounts used by the > > > application. I can open dbaccess and run SQL commands just fine. > > > However, when I attempt to connect from a Windows server via ODBC or > > > ILoginDemo, I get a -952 error that the password validation failed. > > > Here is the message that appears in the online log: > > > Password validation for user [nate] failed! > > > Check for password aging/account lock-out. > > > listener-thread: err = -952: oserr = 0: errstr = nate: User (nate)'s > > > password is not correct for the database server. > > > I'm at a loss as to how I can SSH into the server, but still get an > > > authentication error when I try to connect to Informix with the same > > > account information. Any thoughts or ideas would be greatly > > > appreciated. > > > Thanks, > > > Nate > > > > I never did figure out what the root cause of the problem was. We > > ended up restoring an OS backup from prod to test, and after restoring > > a Level 0 backup to the test DB server everything started working. > > Thanks for all the suggestions. > > -Nate > > Ok. That's one way to take care of it. ;-) > _______________________________________________ > Informix-list mailing list > Informix-list@iiug.org > http://www.iiug.org/mailman/listinfo/informix-list _________________________________________________________________ Share your photos with Windows Live Photos – Free. http://clk.atdmt.com/UKM/go/134665338/direct/01/