Detecting Users Location

[76762264]

IDS online.log message appeared:

listener-thread: err = -951: oserr = 0: errstr = mokshin: Incorrect password or user mokshin is not known on the database server.


The questions are:

1. What actually mokshin is? is it PC name or informix connect (setnet32) username?

2. Can I detect the location of user mokshin? such as IP number or mac address....

Thank you

 

[vpshriyan]

Hi,

1. It is the Network Identification, basically a Computer name.
2. It would be difficult to trace the location of this client machine, if it is not in your Intranet (LAN). However you may try a good network scanner to locate the Local machines (LAN) that attaches to your database server machine and see if "mokshin" is one of them. I personally prefer to use LANguard Network Scanner by GFI Software Ltd.

Regards,
Shriyan

 

[76762264]

How about these?

13:57:17 listener-thread: err = -951: oserr = 0: errstr = SYSTEM: Incorrect password or user SYSTEM is not known on the database server.

13:59:22 listener-thread: err = -951: oserr = 0: errstr = SYSTEM: Incorrect password or user SYSTEM is not known on the database server.

15:55:27 listener-thread: err = -952: oserr = 0: errstr = : User's password is not correct for the database server.

15:56:01 listener-thread: err = -952: oserr = 0: errstr = : User's password is not correct for the database server.

Thank you

 

[vpshriyan]

Hi,

These cases are also similar to earlier ones. You can findout more about this issue by executing at the backend:

finderr -951
finderr -952

Here the connection request for the database server has been raised by the machine identified as SYSTEM. Scan your network for a node named as SYSTEM. If you feel that it is a valid client having a proper home directory at the database server machine, you may proceed to create a file called .rhosts or hosts.equiv at the user's home directory. Include the node/computer name in this file to avoid this message.

Regards,
Shriyan

 

[BFOJ]

Having a similar problem only it's user Informix, not a machine.

listener-thread: err = -951: oserr = 0: errstr = informix: Incorrect
password or user informix is not known on the database server.

Further testing running dbaccess will allow me to "connect" as myself, but get the same error when connecting as user informix.

 

[BFOJ]

Update:

My problem turned out to be that the password had expired for the account "informix". Once I changed the password, I no longer receive these error messages.