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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
HCL OneDB™ directory securityHCL OneDB™ utilities and product directories are secure by default.
Utilities for checking directory security (UNIX™)The database server utilities make security checks before the database server starts.
Securing $INFORMIXDIR and its subdirectoriesWhen the $INFORMIXDIR directory is not secure, run a security script to reset directory permissions.

Securing $INFORMIXDIR and its subdirectories

When the $INFORMIXDIR directory is not secure, run a security script to reset directory permissions.

About this task

To secure the $INFORMIXDIR directory and its subdirectories, you can run the $INFORMIXDIR/etc/make-informixdir-secure script as user root or generate a security script to run with the onsecurity utility.

Procedure

To generate a security script:

Run the following command to generate the secure.sh script: $INFORMIXIDIR/bin/onsecurity -r $INFORMIXDIR
Run the secure.sh script to secure the installation path:
- UNIX and Linux: $INFORMIXDIR/tmp/secure.sh

What to do next

Although user informix has permission to run the script, the script cannot fix the problems unless the directory is owned by user informix. The database server message indicates what still must be fixed. The script also shows files and directories under $INFORMIXDIR that belong to an unexpected owner or group or have public write permission.