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At 09:19 AM 11/3/00 -0500, you wrote: >John, > > > > Because of the crazy way that spool file security works, your > > users will still be > > able to delete their own spool files by issuing the WRKSPLF, > > WRKJOB, WRKSBMJOB, > > etc. commands. Sure, you can secure the OUTQ, but the user > > doesn't have to go > > through the OUTQ to get to the spool file (It's a bit of an odd > > relationship, but > > the spool file doesn't actually live in the OUTQ, it lives in a > > multimember file > > named something like QSPL/Q04079N001). Any tool that gives them > > access to their > > spool files without directly referencing the OUTQ (such as the mentioned > > commands, Ops Nav, etc) will give the user the opportunity to > > delete those spool > > files. simply because they own those spool files. It's on eof > > those quirks of > > AS/400 security. > > > > jte > > > >That's good to know. I hadn't realized that. Our users work from menus and >can't get to either their own spool files or a command line. It was mainly >for the operators so we could keep their joblogs in case of problems to >figure out what happened. I'll have to take a look at that and see if there >is another way to secure those from them. > >Thanks! > >Jill You might find that operational assistant (the attention key thing) and also the system request menu provide the users a way to get at their spool files, unless you already have this covered. Cheers Evan Harris +--- | This is the Midrange System Mailing List! | To submit a new message, send your mail to MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com. | To subscribe to this list send email to MIDRANGE-L-SUB@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 +---
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