Re: Informix Problem - Please Help Urgently

Posted in 2005

scottishpoet — 21 Jul 2005 08:28:47 -0700 — source: Usenet: comp.databases.informix

I have seen OSes that have had seperate functions to get the passwd from /etcpasswd and /etc/shadow, getpasswd() and getshpasswd() respectively. I am not sure what the situation is on linux but this was a problem on ICL I know thats going back a bit!! this is online 5.10, that is also going back a bit!! If Informix is making a call to getpasswd() and Linux is specifically looking in /etc/passwd instead of /etc/shadow if you use that function - as it did on ICL - then yes shadow passwords could be a problem.