Re: Can't authenticate to Online: password incorrect?

Check ownership of oninit ... make sure it's root. I encountered same problem when someone (not I!) installed oninit as informix and system was using shadow passwd file ... thus informix couldn't authenticate. Local users were fine becuase host trusts itself. -Lin VFraenkle <vfraenkle@aol.com> wrote: > Im Artikel <347170D1.EEBF281D@echonyc.com>, Cosmo Lee <"* N O - S P A M * > cosmo"@echonyc.com> schreibt: > >We are running Online 7.22 on Unixware 2.1, Compaq Proliant 1500. > > > >Users are able to telnet into the system and fire up `dbaccess`. > >However, suddenly, they cannot access Online via their Delphi front-end > >program, even though they are typing in the same login and passwords as > >when they telnet in. > > > > > >At the PC end the users see the following error messages: > > > > [Intersolv][ODBC Informix driver] > > [Informix]User's password is not correct for the database server. > > [Intersolv][OBDC Informix driver] > > [Informix] No such file or directory. Alias: debit. > > > > > > > >The following error appears in the online.log file after an unsuccessful > >attempt is made: > > > > 14:13:53 listener-thread: err = -952: User's password is not > >correct for > > the database server. > > > > > > > >Since these messages appear in the backend Online.log file, I assume > >that the connectivity is not the issue - they are definitely connecting > >to Online, at least for an authentication attempt. > > > >I'm not sure how the authentication process works when logging in via > >Online, but I imagine that Online passes the login: and password: data > >on to the OS for checking if the passwords are correct. What goes on > >between Online and the OS that could be mis-operational??? > > > > > >The only thing that has changed, as far as I can recall, is that we > >upgraded from Online 7.21 to Online 7.22. But this shouldn't have had > >any effect on the login process, right??? > > > >Thanx. > > > >-- > You have to trust your client to unix. Create the same user on unix as you > logged in onto your client and modify /etc/hosts.equiv. > greetings volker