RE: IFS authorities

Thank you. Being the owner seems to work most of the time. (Although not
perhaps for symlinks that were created in V4R5 and migrated to V5R1?) And it
appears that symlinks do in fact have their own authorities and don't
inherit their targets' authorities. Anyway, that lets me fix up the problem
and understand how to avoid it in the future.

PC2

-----Original Message-----
From: Peter Connell [mailto:Peter.Connell@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: September 21, 2003 12:55
To: Java Programming on and around the iSeries / AS400
Subject: RE: IFS authorities


Basically, you need to be the owner or have *ALLOBJ.

-----Original Message-----
From: Clapham, Paul [mailto:pclapham@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Saturday, September 20, 2003 7:34 AM
To: Java Programming on and around the iSeries / AS400
Subject: IFS authorities


I am trying to clean up a mess that I created earlier in the Java extensions
directory (/qibm/userdata/java400/ext). I have a bunch of symbolic links
that I want to remove from that directory, but every time I try to do that,
I don't have sufficient authority.

I have all data and object authorities to the extensions directory itself,
and likewise for the target of the symbolic links and the directory they are
located in. From the searches I have done it appears that a symbolic link
doesn't have any authorities of its own, it just inherits the authorities of
its target.

So, what is the authority I am missing?

PC2