RE: Unix authorities

["Phil" <sublime78ska@xxxxxxxxx>]

Thanks, Ed.

Phil

> -----Original Message-----
> From: midrange-l-admin@midrange.com
> [mailto:midrange-l-admin@midrange.com]On Behalf Of Ed Fishel
> Sent: Friday, August 17, 2001 1:48 PM
> To: midrange-l@midrange.com
> Subject: RE: Unix authorities
>
>
>
> Phil,
>
> Execute authority to a directory allows you to search that directory,
> execute authority to a library allows you to search that library.
> You still
> need authority to the objects you find in the directory or library to do
> anything with them.
>
> I recommend that you read the first few pages of Appendix D of
> the Security
> Reference manual for a better understanding of how *R, *RW, and *X are
> implemented on the iSeries. This URL should take you to that book:
> http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/html/as400/v5r1/ic2924/books/c4153025.pdf
>
> >Is 'X' a lower authority than read?  For instance, to read a file in the
> >ifs, you have to have execute authority for the entire directory
> hierarchy.
> >Does execute mean you can't do anything with anything in the directores
> >(assuming you have no specific authority to any of the directory contents
> >and public authority is *exclude)
>
> Ed Fishel,
> edfishel@US.IBM.COM
>
>
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