RE: rcmd: Connect all users from one server to ONE user in the other
Manuel & Art- We use the su command to get around that (we have many users that have on one unix server, but not on the other). It looks something like this: su user_id -c "fglgo program.4gi" or su user_id -c "my_script.ksh" We have set up a dummy user id on both systems (here called "user_id") which has all necessary database permissions, and has no password, so that anyone can su to it. However, the .profile only exit in it, some that no one can log in as it. Since we have our system set up so that no one gets a unix prompt, we have deemed it to be a very small security risk. --EEM > -----Original Message----- > From: Art S. Kagel [mailto:kagel@bloomberg.net] > Sent: Wednesday, August 04, 2004 12:57 PM > To: informix-list@iiug.org > Subject: Re: rcmd: Connect all users from one server to ONE user in the > other > > On Tue, 03 Aug 2004 19:18:37 -0400, Manuel Daponte wrote: > > > Hi, I have 2 boxes (SCO & RedHat) with Informix databases. In SCO I have > a > > large database with +50 different users and a lot of information, and in > > RedHat I have a small database with only a couple of users accounts for > > admin purposes. > > > > I need, while connected to the SCO db, to execute remote queries to the > RH > > db. The configuration for this is task is the same used for the r* > commands > > (rlogin, rmcd). I created the hosts.equiv entries and modified the > Informix > > config files, and if the user with wich I'm connected to SCO exists in > > Linux, everything works fine. The problem occurs when user exists in SCO > and > > not in RH. > > > > Is there a way to "trust" all the users from another server WITHOUT > creating > > them in BOTH servers? For example, create a user in RH that will be the > > default user to execute the commands? > > No. IDS uses the OS's user validation services, so if the user is not > known > by the server's host machine he cannot get access to the databases on that > server. > > Art S. Kagel sending to informix-list