Re: Restricting User Access

on 11/18/97at 11:27 PM, the Great and Grand  Wazir John Earl
<johnearl@lns400.com> said:



The question about how to keep any user from getting at *PUBLIC authority

cuts right to the heart of the Client Access world.  If *PUBLIC has *USE

rights to an object, Client Access let's them read it, execute it, and

transfer it to their C: drive regardless of what your menu security says.

If *PUBLIC has *CHANGE, well you know where I'm headed....


Your idea about creating a separate library is a good one.  Be sure to

give the users only the access they need (*USE to programs, *USE or

*CHANGE to files as appropriate).  Client Access still must abide by

OS/400 object authority.  It's just that too often our object authority

is set too loosely.

Now I have questions.  Do I understand this correctly?  If a data file
named "DFILE" is in a library named "ULIBRARY"  and DFILE has *PUBLIC *ALL
attached, but ULIBRARY has *PUBLIC *EXCLUDE  then any user not given
specific authority to ULIBRARY can not access DFILE in any fashion,
including Client Access and FTP?


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Booth Martin     
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