Users permitted to change modes

UNIX™ only

Users who are logged in as root or informix and members of the DBSA group can change the operating mode of the database server.

If you want users with the DBSA group to connect to the database server in administration mode, set the ADMIN_USER_MODE_WITH_DBSA configuration parameter to 1. If this parameter is set to zero, then access is restricted to user informix only. If the parameter is missing from $ONCONFIG, it is treated as 0.

User informix or a DBSA can dynamically give one or more specific users the ability to connect to the database server in administration mode, using the onmode utility, the oninit utility, or the ADMIN_MODE_USERS configuration parameter.

Note: For a member of the DBSA group, the permissions on $INFORMIXDIR/bin/oninit must be changed to allow public execute permission - root:informix:6755 in a standard HCL OneDB™ installation.

Windows™ only

Operating modes shows which users can change the operating mode of the database server in Windows. Apache as user informix. The Apache server runs as a member of the Informix-Admin group.

Operating modes shows which users can change the operating mode of the database server in Windows. If you use ISA, you can log-in to the operating system as any user but you must log-in to Apache as user informix. The Apache server runs as a member of the Informix-Admin group.

Table 1. Changing operating modes in windows
Changing operating mode	Administrators group	HCL OneDB-Admin group
command-line utilities such as starts		X
ISA		X
services control panel	X