Re: Database security

Posted in 1991

Walt Hultgren {rmy} — Wed, 9 Oct 91 11:40:09 -0400 — source: Informix-list mailing list archive (1991-1998)

Path: emory!samsung!uakari.primate.wisc.edu!sdd.hp.com!swrinde!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!mcsun!unido!sbsvax!ukh840!becker From: becker@ukh840.med-in.uni-sb.de Newsgroups: comp.databases.informix Message-ID: <13683@sbsvax.cs.uni-sb.de> Date: 9 Oct 91 13:52:37 GMT References: <503@rand.mel.cocam.oz.au> Sender: news@sbsvax.cs.uni-sb.de shaneb@auzodt3.mel.cocam.oz.au (Shane Booth) writes: > > Does anyone know a way to allow users to run a 4GL application that inserts > and deletes from a database, but to disallow the users from altering the data > by running isql? Here we run Informix-4GL version 4.00.UC1 for Sco Unix. > > Thanks for any help, > Shane Booth > shaneb@auzodt3.mel.cocam.oz.au I asked this question to a representant of INFORMIX at the exposition of the German Unix User Group. The answer was no. There is no Informix-tool to decide which front-end is speaking with sqlexec/sqlturbo. Perhaps You can use the setuid in Your 4gl-program for changing the owner. But this may be difficult. Dieter Becker -- Dr. med. dipl.-math Dieter Becker Tel.: (0 / +49) 6841 - 16 3046 Medizinische Universitaets- und Poliklinik Fax.: (0 / +49) 6841 - 16 3369 Innere Medizin III D - 6650 Homburg / Saar becker@ukh840.med-in.uni-sb.de