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From: rbp@investor.pgh.pa.us (Bob Peirce #305)
Newsgroups: comp.databases
Subject: Re: Bug creating a db in Informix
Keywords: informix chgrp setgid
Message-ID: <1990Apr10.143004.4720@investor.pgh.pa.us>
Date: 10 Apr 90 14:30:04 GMT
References: <1990Apr3.175133.12382@aqdata.uucp> <1073@vision.UUCP>
Reply-To: rbp@investor.pgh.pa.us (Bob Peirce #305)
Organization: Cookson, Peirce & Co., Pittsburgh, PA
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In article <1073@vision.UUCP> chris@vision.UUCP (Chris Davies) writes:
>
>When I tried the situation above, setting the group to "informix" and the
>permissions to group rwx, it worked perfectly.  However, this then leads
>on to the possibility that _anyone_ could create a database in this
>directory  :-(  No, I've no quick'n'easy solution to that one!

The grant command should take care of that.

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Bob Peirce, Pittsburgh, PA				  412-471-5320
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