Re: Internal tagging

Posted in 1995

Spokey the Wheeler — Sun, 10 Sep 95 14:00:22 GMT — source: Informix-list mailing list archive (1991-1998)

In article <42qb0r$co3@bubba.NMSU.Edu> weller@acca.nmsu.edu "Weller" writes: > I have Informix SE, ISQL > > The problem I am experiencing is the internal tagging the informix > software does to the files I create. By this I mean that the files > are somehow tagged internally with my user ID number. This undoubtably > helps with security. Howver, when I want to transfer files I created to > another workstation, if the user has a different ID number then the > file permissions don't jive and I can't read the Informix files on > the destination computer. This is actually an O/S issue. I think the easiest way around it is to set your UMASK environment variable so that it automatically creates files with 666 file permissions. HTH, Spokey the Wheeler------------------------------------------------------------- "Billy Boy" - das aufregende andersche kondom!