Re: User profile SSA

["Genyphyr Novak" <novakg@xxxxxxxx>]

Hello,

We don't ship the SSA user profile with *ALLOBJ authority. Someone had to
alter the profile to let it have this authority. It ships with *PGMR
authority, as I previously posted.

Thanks

Genyphyr Novak
SSA

-----Original Message-----
From: DAsmussen@aol.com <DAsmussen@aol.com>
To: BPCS-L@midrange.com <BPCS-L@midrange.com>
Date: Tuesday, February 22, 2000 1:05 AM
Subject: Re: User profile SSA


>Rhamberg,
>
>In a message dated 2/18/00 2:49:32 PM Eastern Standard Time,
>rhamberg@mother-parkers.com writes:
>
>>      Can anyone explain why BPCS profile SSA has *ALLOBJ  authority?
>>       We are AS/400 running BPCS 6.0.02 mixed mode.
>
>The short answer?  Because nobody up there ever bothered to take the time
to
>learn AS/400 security.  Same reason everything is owned by SSA and that it
is
>suggested you use group profile SSA for all BPCS users or risk losing
>support.  Don't feel personally slighted -- as the late "Peanuts" author
>said, "your name just came up."  Most of the other software vendors do this
>too, although they don't usually threaten you with loss of support for not
>following their security guidelines.  Just set the SSA user profile so that
>it cannot sign on.  At least SSA doesn't put their own libraries in the
>system portion of the library list like Help Systems does!
>
>Regards,
>
>Dean Asmussen
>Enterprise Systems Consulting, Inc.
>Fuquay-Varina, NC  USA
>E-mail:  DAsmussen@aol.com
>


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