RE: Security of Volumes

An interesting idea Peter.  I'm sure if you could manage it there would
be quite a market for it, but I can't seem how you could prevent someone
who gets the NOT AUTHORIZED message from just taking the tape/CD to
another system and doing a Dump Object on it.
Of course, if all the data was encrypted before it was stored the data
itself may be 'secure'.

Still, if you have some ideas they obviously need to remain secret for
this to work.   :-)


Neil Palmer                                AS/400~~~~~      
NxTrend Technology - Canada   ____________          ___  ~     
Thornhill, Ontario,  Canada   |OOOOOOOOOO| ________  o|__||=   
Phone: (905) 731-9000  x238   |__________|_|______|_|______)   
Cell.: (416) 565-1682  x238    oo      oo   oo  oo   OOOo=o\   
Fax:   (905) 731-9202       ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ 
mailto:NPalmer@NxTrend.com        http://www.NxTrend.com


> -----Original Message-----
> From: O'Connor, Peter H. [SMTP:102736.3535@compuserve.com]
> Sent: Monday, March 09, 1998 7:35 AM
> To:   INTERNET:MIDRANGE-L@MIDRANGE.COM
> Subject:      Security of Volumes
> 
> I have had a request from a client to add security to media volumes.
> For
> example,  John can't use volume 123456.  He would get a NOT AUTHORIZED
> to
> this volume.    This would mean that you could do with a media volume
> that
> you can do with an object of the 400.  The idea is to restrict certain
> users to confidential data on volumes.  
> I would like to know what  the 400 community thinks  of this and if
> has any
> value.
> 
> Peter H. O'Connor
> PAE Inc.
> 7 Riverway Rd.
> Salem, MA 01970-5343
> 978-744-8612(T)
> 978-745-7945(F)
> e-mail 102736.3535@compuserve.com
> 
+---
| This is the Midrange System Mailing List!
| To submit a new message, send your mail to MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com.
| To unsubscribe from this list send email to MIDRANGE-L-UNSUB@midrange.com.
| Questions should be directed to the list owner/operator: david@midrange.com
+---