Re: Stored Procedure Question

Posted in 1996

Koen Van der Elst — Wed, 19 Jun 1996 20:56:28 GMT — source: Informix-list mailing list archive (1991-1998)

>Is it possible for change your password by invoking a Stored Procedure ? > >I tried it by calling >SYSTEM passwd > >but I get an error # 668 and ISAM Error 1. > >Is there any way to get around this problem ? I use 7.12 on Dec Alpha 3.2. Yes there is, but it's difficult. I've solved the problem (on SCO Openserver 5) using a program i've written (in C). The program runs with SUID root and changes a user's password. SCO Openserver has specific routines to change a user's password, which are unique to SCO. I don't know if other Unix vendor provide the neccesary routines. Koen.