Informix: User password limitations

Owned by Elena Sviridenko (Unlicensed)
Last updated: Aug 22, 2018 by Alexandr Kudentsov (Unlicensed)
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Lycia3 has limitations on using "$" in user passwords for Informix database (defined by the INFORMIXPASS environment variable).

The "$" symbol is treated as “$whatever” environment variable and will be expanded to its value. If there is no “$whatever” environment variable, then it will be expanded to an empty string.
In any case, the password string will be changed and thus its value will become incorrect.