RE: Setting password for database user on Linux

Thank you very much Art, I thought I was going nuts on this one. It just seemed to simple. I'll watch the Informix site for more info. Regards, jb -----Original Message----- From: Art S. Kagel [mailto:kagel@bloomberg.net] Sent: Thursday, July 13, 2000 1:33 PM To: informix-list@iiug.org Subject: Re: Setting password for database user on Linux Informix does not do its own authentication at all. It relies on the OS to authenticate users so ostensibly it will use whatever you have setup for your system. The problem with the Linux version right now is a bug that blocks using shadown passwd file or PAM. It is scheduled to be fixed in a future release, see the Informix WEB site for details of version. Search their bug tracking for shadow and/or PAM until you find the bug report which should specify the version scheduled to contain the fix. Art S. Kagel Ivan Raikov wrote: > > Isn't there a way to make Informix use a different authentication > scheme (if not PAM, how about Kerberos)? If yes, how do I find out > more, I've searched the Informix Web site unsuccessfully. > > Thanks, > Ivan Raikov > > "Art S. Kagel" <kagel@bloomberg.net> writes: > > > Known problem if you are using the shadow password file or PAM. You > > have to back down to /etc/passwd and connection with a username and > > password will work again. The method was posted here in the last 4 > > months a few times and I believe it is somewhere on the Informix site > > as well. > > > > Art S. Kagel > > > > -- > Ivan Raikov > 800 Fowler Street, Atlanta, Georgia 30313-2554 > Phone: 404-892-6579 x. 106 > Email: raikov@cc.gatech.edu