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- From: cs_mj@gsbacd.uchicago.edu (Mark Jaeger)
- Subject: Re: adding private ingres-net authorizations
- Message-ID: <1993Jan11.162212.1@gsbacd.uchicago.edu>
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- References: <1icr3sINNgg5@shelley.u.washington.edu>
- Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1993 22:22:12 GMT
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- In article <1icr3sINNgg5@shelley.u.washington.edu>,
- barr@stein.u.washington.edu (David Barr) writes:
- > I want to automate the addition of new users to our ingres net
- > authorizations. Is there any alternative to using "netu" to do this,
- > like an "ii" table of some sort that I can modify?
-
- INGRES/Net authorizations are stored in some special funny files in
- ii_system:[ingres.files.name] (VMS only). The files are called
- iilogin_<nodename>. Try displaying them with VMS "dump" (or UNIX "od").
- You might be able to hack the files and add data to them directly, but I
- wouldn't recommend it. If you take this approach, make sure that you
- shut down the net server before changing the file.
-
- There is no system catalog you can change, because INGRES/Net doesn't
- depend on a database or a database server. You can have a net-only
- installation.
-
- A better solution would be to fox INGRES into thinking you are the other
- user by changing your username. Look in ii_system:[ingres.sig.setuser]
- for a program that allows you to change the username under VMS. Then
- run netu and create the user authorization, and voila. INGRES only
- looks at the VMS username to determine who you are. This can be
- automated, too, by using a program to write a script, and giving this
- script as the input to netu.
-
- It really works. I know, I've tried it.
-
- --Mark Jaeger internet: cs_mj@gsbvax.uchicago.edu
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