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From: campbell@Thalatta.COM (Bill Campbell)
Newsgroups: comp.databases
Subject: Re: Which RDBMS need setUID root?  Informix?
Keywords: Unix, Security
Message-ID: <2301@thebes.Thalatta.COM>
Date: 22 Nov 89 22:52:04 GMT
References: <6006@cbnewsh.ATT.COM>
Reply-To: campbell@Thalatta.COM (Bill Campbell)
Organization: Thalatta Corporation, Bellevue WA
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In article <6006@cbnewsh.ATT.COM> wcs@cbnewsh.ATT.COM (Bill Stewart 201-949-0705 ho95c.att.com!wcs) writes:
>We're trying to pick an RDBMS to do applications in a secure computer
>environment, so we need to find one that doesn't use setUID root.
>SetUID to some specific user is ok, but root is out.

UNIFY 4.0 doesn't require any setuid although you may set it if you want.
We use this extensively for our accounting software and use the setuid
to particular users so that there be multiple data bases on the machine
without everyone having access.

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