Re: Programing Question/Authority...

Or,

opening up the door for a rogue programmer who thinks standards are for 
everyone else,,

At 10:00 AM 7/26/2001, you wrote:
>alan shore wrote:
>
><Be careful which of the jobs adopt owner authority. It should only be the 
>job that needs it. Any job submitted from this job will also adopt that 
>owners authority.>
>
>VERY good point Alan, because that could open up the door for rogue stuff 
>if a programmer was unaware of that !
>
>Chuck
>
> >
> > >>> "Phil" <sublime78ska@yahoo.com> 07/25/01 06:13PM >>>
> > If it is submitted to batch, use adopted authority *OWNER on the pgm 
> that is
> > submitted.
> >
> > The batch job will then have the authority of the object owner.
> >
> > Phil
> >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: owner-rpg400-l@midrange.com [mailto:owner-rpg400-l@midrange.com]On
> > > Behalf Of Chuck Lewis
> > > Sent: Wednesday, July 25, 2001 5:16 PM
> > > To: RPG400-L
> > > Subject: Programing Question/Authority...
> > >
> > >
> > > Hi Folks,
> > >
> > > Don't do this enough and can't for the LIFE of me figure it out...
> > >
> > > We are using 3rd party software and we can define "Fast Paths" that let
> > > user run programs we write outside of the 3rd party suite.
> > >
> > > I have written simple little RPG program that they call that prompts the
> > > user for a date and then submits a CL to run the report. Initially I was
> > > getting an error because the user is not authorized to the Submit
> > > command. I fixed this with a Job Description. This second CL creates a
> > > LF in QTEMP and then runs an RPG program to produce a listing. Well now
> > > they can't create the LF because the submitted job is running under the
> > > User Profile which does not have authority to do that.
> > >
> > > Is there an easy solution to this ? I've been buried in it now (along
> > > with juggling a BUNCH of other stuff) and have some ideas but wanted to
> > > avoid reinvent the wheel !
> > >
> > > Thanks,
> > >
> > > Chuck
> > >
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