Re: Unix authentication ?

Dirk Moolman said: > I was always under the impression that you don't need a password on > Unix, to make a remote call to Informix (tcp connection), as long as > your username exists in the operating system. > > I have a database server, and 4 application servers, and my users do not > have a password on the database server, so they can't physically log in > there, however they still connect to Informix on the database server. > > > BUT, one of our Java applications does the same thing, and for some > reason it needs a home directory as well as a password on Unix. If I > leave the username/password, but give it a fake home directory, Java > gives me an error, and cannot connect to Informix - why is this ? Just a guess here (as usual), but maybe the OS does a validation of the directory and moans if it's a fake? -- Bye now, Obnoxio "C'est pas parce qu'on n'a rien ' dire qu'il faut fermer sa gueule" - Coluche "I'm trying to see things your way, but I can't get my head up my ass" - JCH "Ogni uomo mi guarda come se fossi una testa di cazzo" - Marco Travel broadens a person. You look as if you have been all over the world. I went to the airport to check in and they asked what I did because I looked like a terrorist. I said I was a comedian. They said, "Say something funny then." I told them I had just graduated from flying school. -- Ahmed Ahmed http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y41/Obnoxio/thinkIfoundtheproblem.jpg sending to informix-list