Web2py remote linux user trying to connect to Informix

[Joseph Aulisi]

We have Web2py 2.18.5-stable running on a RHEL 7 virtual machine with python 2.7.16, nginx 1.17.1, and uwsgi 2.0.x. Although web2py applications can connect to our Informix database server using the credentials specified in the DAL for each application, on the Informix server, we are seeing these errors 

15:33:58  listener-thread: err = -951: oserr = 0: errstr = web...@x.x.x.x: Incorrect password or user web...@x.x.x.x is not known on the database server.

Why would the web2py user be trying to connect to the Informix server? Could this be uwsgi trying to make a database connection?

[Massimo Di Pierro]

No idea what is going on. If you app intended to connect to Informix? Did work before?

[Joseph Aulisi]

Oh yes, the informix connection works perfectly, with the correct user and password. It just that the logs on the informix server are filling up with failed logins from web2py@remotehost. uwsgi runs as web2py on the remote host, so it must be coming from uwsgi trying to make a connection, but I'm not sure why, since the DAL handles the queries.

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[Massimo Di Pierro]

I do not think uwsgi is doing this. This looks more like somebody is maliciously trying to get it.