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SecurityYou can secure your HCL OneDB™ database server and the data that is stored in your HCL OneDB™ databases. You can encrypt data, secure connections, control user privileges and access, and audit data security.
Security in HCL OneDB™The HCL OneDB™ Security Guide documents methods for keeping your data secure by preventing unauthorized viewing and altering of data or database objects, including how to use the secure-auditing facility of the database server.
Securing data
Discretionary access controlDiscretionary access control verifies whether the user who is attempting to perform an operation has been granted the required privileges to perform that operation.
Setting permission to create databasesUse the DBCREATE_PERMISSION configuration parameter to give specified users permission to create databases and thus prevent other users from creating databases.

Setting permission to create databases

Use the DBCREATE_PERMISSION configuration parameter to give specified users permission to create databases and thus prevent other users from creating databases.

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If you do not set the DBCREATE_PERMISSION configuration parameter, any user can create a database.

The informix user always has permission to create databases.

To set permission to create databases:

Procedure

To restrict the ability to create databases to the informix user, add the following line to the onconfig file:
```
DBCREATE_PERMISSION informix
```
You can include multiple instances of DBCREATE_PERMISSION in the onconfig file to give additional users permission to create databases.
For example, to grant permission to a user named watsonjay, add this line to the onconfig file:
```
DBCREATE_PERMISSION watsonjay
```