Re: can IFS directory text be changed?

Original post asked about descriptive text on a non-library directory, similar 
to that seen on a library. As far as I know there is not a way to change that 
extended attribute stuff. But one never knows - things change.

Vern

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I believe there is an attribute you can turn on that says "I don't care if 
you are QSECOFR or God himself, you are not allowed to delete or rename 
this directory if you are not the person who created the directory or the 
files within it". See 
CHGATR OBJ('/mydir') ATR(*RSTDRNMUNL) VALUE(*YES) 

IBM ships the directory /tmp this way since some release of OS. Caused a 
lot of problems with SNDEMAIL. Seems that with this attribute turned on 
and files created in /tmp by SNDEMAIL being ran by various users and then 
trying to be processed by some IBM QTCP* type of user hurled. They might 
have backed off on that change with V5R4. Originally some Linux 
propellorhead suggested they make that change because that's how Linux did 
it. 

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On 20/06/2006, at 12:28 PM, Jim Franz wrote: 

I see QSYS.LIB directory has Text. Can I add Text to some other 
directories. 
The option 2 in WRKLNK does not have anything to change the text. 
Had an admin remove a directory critical to webserver "because it had 
no text..." and 
he assumed it was user junk. (and yes he should not have been 
authorized....but customer 
turned down the security project...) 

Object link Type Attribute Text 
www DIR 
... 
QSR DIR 
QSYS.LIB DIR PROD System Library 

It has text because it is a *LIB object. It is only masquerading as a 
directory due the magic of the IFS. QSYS.LIB objects have text. Stream 
files and directories do not. Same is true for the attribute column. 

Regards, 
Simon Coulter. 
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