RE: Multiple Residency & Shared Memory

Well at least you are starting to get there. Now can anyone remember how this came up? >Real user for oninit is whoever ran it, the effective user is root ... > >$ ps -eo "user ruser args" | grep oninit root informix oninit > USER RUSER COMMAND > root informix oninit > root informix oninit > root informix oninit > root informix oninit > root informix oninit > root informix oninit > root informix oninit > root informix oninit > root informix oninit > root informix oninit > root drinfx oninit > root drinfx oninit > root informix oninit > root drinfx oninit > root drinfx oninit > root drinfx oninit > root drinfx oninit > root drinfx oninit > root drinfx oninit > root drinfx oninit> >As for what he means by change database ownership, I don't know >if he means ownership of the executables, the database, the datafiles >or of his car... > >Will > >===== Original Message From "Richard harnden" <harndr@russelleurope.com> >===== > >Now I'm totally confused. > > > >Surely all the shared memory is created with the owner/group of whoever >ran >oninit. > > > >What do you mean "Change database ownership" ? > >onmode -k > >su - another_user > >oninit> >??? > > > >And, why would you want to do that? > >It means adding another_user to group informix - which is bad for >security. > > > >>> "jim lowry" <lowryjim@hotmail.com> 06/05/00 03:47pm >>> > >>I could be mistaken, but I thought what Mark was trying to say was that > >>you couldnt identify the shared memory by the user who started the > >>database. > > > >> > >>$ ipcs> >>IPC status from /dev/mem as of Mon Jun 5 08:28:28 CDT 2000 > >>T ID KEY MODE OWNER GROUP > >>Message Queues: > >>q 0 0x4107001c -Rrw-rw---- root printq > >>q 1 0x001d8828 -Rrw-rw-rw- root dsadmin > >>q 2 0x001cd3b0 -Rrw-rw-rw- root dsadmin > >>q 3 0x001c0570 -Rrw-rw-rw- root dsadmin > >>q 4 0x001d2680 -Rrw-rw-rw- root dsadmin > >>q 5 0x001a9190 -Rrw-rw-rw- root dsadmin > >>Shared Memory: > >>m 1 0x52574801 --rw-rw---- root informix > >>m 2 0x52574802 --rw-rw---- root informix > >>m 3 0x52574803 --rw-rw-rw- root informix > > > >What you show is correct... why? Because your database > >wasn't started by another user. Change database ownership > >to another user id, then start the database as that user. > >I'll bet if you then run ipcs|grep user_name you'll see it. > > > >________________________________________________________________________ > >Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com > >------------------------------------------------------------ >This e-mail has been sent to you courtesy of OperaMail, as a free >service from >Opera Software, makers of the award-winning Web Browser, Opera. Visit us >at >http://www.opera.com/ or our portal at: http://www.myopera.com/ Your free >e-mail >account is waiting at: http://www.operamail.com/ >------------------------------------------------------------ > ________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com