Installation Considerations for IPM
Privileges and IPM
IPM provides powerful abilities to view information about any user session and the Ingres installation as a whole. It requires restricted system privileges to run.
You can install IPM so that less privileged users can use it. However, this type of installation permits any user to display large quantities of system and other user information. Users can display, for example, what other user sessions are running, what tables other users are accessing, whether a given user session is currently active, how much log file space any transaction is taking up, which user sessions are holding locks blocking which other sessions, and so on.
Note: Do not select this type of IPM installation unless you intend ordinary users to have the capability to display system and other user information.
Privileges are required to view queries or remove sessions or servers.
Linux: By default, IPM can be run only by the Ingres system administrator. This is the account used for performing installations.
If needed, you can permit IPM to be run by less privileged users with the following command entered at the operating system prompt:
chmod 4711 ipm 
Last modified date: 04/03/2024