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SecurityYou can secure your Informix® database server and the data that is stored in your Informix® databases. You can encrypt data, secure connections, control user privileges and access, and audit data security.
Security in HCL Informix®The Informix® 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
Connection securityYou can administer the security of the connections to the database server by using authentication and authorization processes.
Simple password encryptionThe simple password communication support module (SPWDCSM) provides password encryption.
Example concsm.cfg entries for password encryptionYou must specify parameters and fields in the concsm.cfg file for password encryption.

Example concsm.cfg entries for password encryption

You must specify parameters and fields in the concsm.cfg file for password encryption.

The following two examples illustrate the two alternatives for parameters that you must enter in the concsm.cfg file to define the Simple Password Communication Support Module.

The following configuration example is for a database server and client computers that use different CSMs.

SPWDCSM("client=/usr/informix/lib/client/csm/libixspw.so,
   server=/usr/informix/lib/csm/libixspw.so", "", "")

The following configuration example is for a database server and client computers that share a CSM.

SPWDCSM("/usr/informix/lib/csm/libixspw.so", "", "")

The following configuration example shows the connection option p set to 0, so a password is not required:

SPWDCSM("/work/informix/csm/libixspw.so", "", "p=0")

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