[Info-ingres] Help with remote access to X (Ingres 11.2)

[Roy Hann]

G Jones wrote:

> At risk of pointing toward the more obvious settings -
> dbms_authentication, II_SHADOW_PWD ?
> 
> On Linux, where I tend to install using ingbuild, I've noticed that in
> recent 11.1 upgrade patches you no longer get ingvalidpam automatically,
> which confused me for a while when I'd set II_SHADOW_PWD to a binary
> which didn't exist.  There's a mkvalidpam now to set it up - but that
> wants root access which I might not have, so instead I grab a copy from
> $II_SYSTEM/ingres/files/iipwd/ingvalidpam.dis
> 
> I'm yet to move onto 11.2 though. Things could be different there.

You totally nailed it Geraint!

Manually running mkvalidpam as root then setting II_SHADOW_PWD to point
to it makes everything work as usual.

Add one to the list of pints I owe you.

Roy