From: Jonathan Williams (jonathw@shubertorg.com)
Date: Wed Nov 20 2002 - 16:17:07 EST
I've got an ES40 running tru64 5.1, patch 5. Up until today we just had the
BASE security installed. Then I went ahead and did a "sysman secconfig", and
chose ENHANCED. Going throught the little wizard the only thing I chose was to
enable SHADOWED passwords...the rest of the steps I just skipped. After hitting
"finish" it says that the new security option will be in full effect after next
boot. I can't boot this system during the day, so figured I would do it
tonight. I'm not sure what it needs a reboot for, because I looked at the
passwd file, and saw that there were little * where the passwords had been. I
also changed a password, and saw the enhanced security menu (choose your own
password, blah blah blah). Everything seemed fine. I could login as any user
normally--ftp was fine, telnet was fine--everything seemed OK. Until...
One of our programmers tried to access one of the Informix databases on this
system through a graphical tool called ServerStudio. Normally it just goes
straight in and connects to the database. Now it seems to ask for a username
and password. The problem is that when you put in the Informix user with the
proper password, it says something like "invalid username or password". I went
over and tried this myself, but it just won't let you connect to the
database...(yes, I typed very slowly). I can telnet into this system as
Informix, and it lets me in just fine. It seems to be a problem with this
ServerStudio program and how it connects. Has anyone had a similar experience?
I'm really at a loss. TIA
Jonathan Williams
Unix Systems Administrator
The Shubert Organization, Inc.
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