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  • Subject: Re: USRCLS(*USER) = *ALLOBJ....???
  • From: John Earl <johnearl@xxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Wed, 07 Apr 1999 10:21:55 -0700
  • Organization: PowerTech Toolworks & The 400 School



Larry Bolhuis wrote:

> John,
>
> Realistically level 10 is a pain in the *** anyway.  You end up with every
> spelling of QSECOFR as a user profile and every fat fingered grouping of
> characters imaginable as well.

Yeah, and they're all *ALLOBJ users.  That's the real scary part.

> And anyway IBM is probably looking at potential
> liability.  Someone is bound to go after them claiming that 'you gave me level
> 10 and I used it and I lost my data so it's your fault' Sure you can lose data
> at level 50 almost as easy but at least then security is implemented 
>incorrectly
> and not just 'turned off'.

That could be the case, but I'd prefer to think that rational thinking 
prevailed, as in
someone stood up and said "This is stupid, let's quit doing it."

But then, I've always been an optimist.  :)

jte



> John Earl wrote:
> >
> > Larry,
> >
> > At COMMON Carol Woodbury said that QSECURITY level 10 is supported if you 
>are
> > _currently_ at that level.  Once you change from 10 to anything else, 
>you're not allowed
> > to go back to 10.   That's bound to be a rude surprise for some people, but 
>I like it!!!
> >
> > jte
> >
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