Re: Is there P.A.M. or Kerberos authentication support in IDS?

There is PAM support starting with IDS 9.40.UC2, on SOL32, SOL64, HP32, AIX32, and Linux. You could also use ESQL/C as the client , starting CSDK2.81.UC2 (ESQL - 9.53.UC2) . The client has support for PAM on all platforms. Read http://www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/db2/zones/informix/library/techarticle/0306mathur/0306mathur.html for more information. Thanks and Regards, Abhi. -------------------------------------------------------------------- There are 10 kinds of people,,,,, .... those who understand binary notations, and those who don't. -------------------------------------------------------------------- "Jim Cramer" <jcramer@engineering.uiowa.edu> Sent by: owner-informix-list@iiug.org 01/22/2004 02:15 PM Please respond to "Jim Cramer" To: informix-list@iiug.org cc: Subject: Is there P.A.M. or Kerberos authentication support in IDS? Hi all, We do not wish to use the age-old, insecure, arcane Unix login authentication method that hits against the /etc/passwd file when logging into our IDS servers. Instead, we would like to use a centralized, networked authentication/account server such as a Kerberos Domain Controller. Specifically, my question is: does anyone know of any support in Informix Dynamic Server for use of either P.A.M. (Pluggable Authentication Module) (Kerberos is one authentication plugin module that works with the PAM framework) or for Kerberos authentication? Any information about this would be greatly appreciated. Sincerely, Jim Cramer Data Base Administrator Computer Systems Support, College of Engineering, University of Iowa 1252 SC Iowa City, Iowa 52242 (319)335-5757 (319)384-0549 (fax) sending to informix-list