Other users running onmode

Posted in 1999

Jon Myatt — Thu, 30 Sep 1999 15:15:55 +0100 — source: Informix-list mailing list archive (1991-1998)

Hi all I have a requirement to let a user other than informix kill errant sessions, with onmode -z. I thought I could just write a little C wrapper which took the session id and did an onmode -z on it, running setuid informix, but this doesn't work, I get "Must be a DBSA to run this program". Does anyone know of a way to achieve what I want? Cheers, Jon.

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Jon Myatt — Thu, 30 Sep 1999 16:46:24 +0100 — source: Informix-list mailing list archive (1991-1998)

I've cracked it now. The key is to run the wrapper setuid root and use setreuid within it to informix. Jon. > I have a requirement to let a user other than informix kill errant > sessions, with onmode -z. I thought I could just write a little C wrapper > which took the session id and did an onmode -z on it, running setuid > informix, but this doesn't work, I get "Must be a DBSA to run this program".

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