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Re: Error 951 in IDS 9.4

Posted By: rguevara
Date: Wednesday, 3 August 2005, at 9:25 a.m.

In Response To: Error 951 in IDS 9.4 (rguevara)

Thanks Martin!!
Sorry, the OS its the Redhat 9, and the aging of accounts and license its ok. The problem wos the file permissions, some body change the complete directory bin permissions with 666!. Now change the oninit to 6754 permission and work.

One last question, the RUN_AS_ROOT.server script, only change the permisions?

Well, thanks for all

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---------- Original Message -----------
From: Martin Fuerderer <MARTINFU@de.ibm.com>
To: "rguevara" <rguevara@mcanet.com.ar>
Cc: forum.subscriber@iiug.org, ids@iiug.org
Sent: Wed, 3 Aug 2005 11:57:44 +0200
Subject: Re: Error 951 in IDS 9.4 [5535]

> Hi,
>
> are you sure that the password for the user in question
> ("informix") is in the file /etc/shadow ?
>
> 3 possibilities come to my mind:
>
> - you are using Solaris (you don't mention OS and OS version)
> and you are running into problem PTS-B 171594 :
>
> If a user who is not known on the system atempts to connect, the
> online.log
> might show:
>
> 11:09:36 WARNING: mt_aio_wait: errno == EINVAL
> 11:09:36 Get Shadow Password for user [01001358] failed!
> 11:09:36 Check for password aging/account lock-out.
> 11:09:36 listener-thread: err = -951: oserr = 0: errstr = 01001358:
> Incorrect
> password or user 01001358 is not known on the database server.
>
> This is a Solaris problem (so-called "Vendor bug"), which can be solved:
>
> Please see the following email from SUN:
>
> "Yes, it looks like 108993-27 fixed several issues by re-implementing
> the
> stdio file I/O functions, used by many of the libnsl (Naming Service
> library) functions.
>
> The intent is that this change to our implementation should be
> transparent to you, so that errno would be set in the same cases where
> it was before. However, bug 4915053 indicates that there are
> times when
> EINVAL is returned erroneously. This bug is fixed in:
>
> Solaris 8 patch 108993-37 and higher
> Solaris 9 update 7, patch 113319-18 and higher
> Solaris 10 build 46 and higher
>
> So, while it *might* be safe to assume that you can reset any EINVAL
> returned from getspnam(), I recommend that you don't change your code.
>
> Instead, it's actually a better idea to update the customer's patches
> to
> the ones listed above."
>
> - the users password really is not in in /etc/shadow , but you
> have deployed a different authentication method that is not
> supported by IDS.
>
> IDS natively supports only the generic UNIX password encryption
> (using the system call "crypt()"), with the password either being
> held in /etc/passwd, /etc/shadow or NIS/NIS+. All other methods
> (encryption and/or place to keep encrypted password) are not
> natively supported.
>
> With IDS 9.40.xC2 and higher you can use PAM to implement
> support for other methods (e.g. MD5 encryption, LDAP, etc.).
>
> - the "oninit" binary ($INFORMIXDIR/bin/oninit) does not have the
> correct owner and file access rights settings. This can cause
> that oninit is not allowed to open the file /etc/shadow and thus
> cannot get the encrypted password from this file.
>
> To set things right, you need to re-run the "RUN_AS_ROOT.server"
> script, that you had to run to finish the installation. If the script
> no longer exists, the easiest thing probably is to re-install and then
> run the script ...
>
> Regards,
> Martin
> --
> Martin Fuerderer
> IBM Informix Development Munich, Germany
> Information Management
>
> forum.subscriber@iiug.org wrote on 02.08.2005 22:56:18:
> > Hi, i work with IDS 9.4 and work right recently, but now when do oninit
> say this:
> >
> > 15:40:58 Event alarms enabled. ALARMPROG =
> '/usr/informix/etc/alarmprogram.sh'
> > 15:40:58 Booting Language <c> from module <>
> > 15:40:58 Loading Module <CNULL>
> > 15:40:58 Booting Language <builtin> from module <>
> > 15:40:58 Loading Module <BUILTINNULL>
> > 15:41:04 Dynamically allocated new virtual shared memory segment (size
> 8192KB)
> > 15:41:04 IBM Informix Dynamic Server Version 9.40.UC4 Software
> Serial Number AAA#B000000
> > 15:41:05 IBM Informix Dynamic Server Initialized -- Shared Memory
> Initialized.
> >
> > 15:41:05 Physical Recovery Started at Page (1:470).
> > 15:41:05 Physical Recovery Complete: 0 Pages Examined, 0 Pages
> Restored.
> > 15:41:05 Logical Recovery Started.
> > 15:41:05 10 recovery worker threads will be started.
> > 15:41:08 Logical Recovery has reached the transaction cleanup phase.
> > 15:41:08 Logical Recovery Complete.
> > 0 Committed, 0 Rolled Back, 0 Open, 0 Bad Locks
> >
> > 15:41:09 Dataskip is now OFF for all dbspaces
> > 15:41:09 Checkpoint Completed: duration was 0 seconds.
> > 15:41:09 Checkpoint loguniq 2579, logpos 0x2c1018, timestamp: 78963472
> >
> > 15:41:09 Maximum server connections 0
> > 15:41:09 On-Line Mode
> >
> > I find what the Maximum server connection is 0 because dead licence or
> the IDS have bad configuration.
> > When i try connect with onmonitor, its say "WARNING: Network Down"
> Online
> > and when i try connect with dbacces say this:
> >
> > 951: Incorrect password or user informix is not known on the database
> server.
> >
> > and the onstat -m say:
> >
> > 15:44:48 Get Shadow Password for user [informix] failed!
> > 15:44:48 Check for password aging/account lock-out.
> > 15:44:48 listener-thread: err = -951: oserr = 0: errstr = informix:
> Incorrect password or user informix is not known on the database server.
> >
> > The user and password its right, also the network, services, sqlhost and
> enviroment variables
> > How i access the data whit re-install IDS?
> >
> > Please helpme!
> >
> > PD: Sorry for my bad english.
> >
> > --
------- End of Original Message -------

Messages In This Thread

• Error 951 in IDS 9.4
  rguevara -- Tuesday, 2 August 2005, at 4:56 p.m.
  • Re: Error 951 in IDS 9.4
    Martin Fuerderer -- Wednesday, 3 August 2005, at 6:04 a.m.
  • Re: Error 951 in IDS 9.4
    rguevara -- Wednesday, 3 August 2005, at 9:25 a.m.
    • Re: Error 951 in IDS 9.4
      Martin Fuerderer -- Wednesday, 3 August 2005, at 12:43 p.m.

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