RE: "Lucy, 'splain me!" (Security Question)

["Cotes, Steven" <cotess@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Dean,
does this profile have *SECADM special authority ?

 -Steve Cotes
 -cotess@data-io.com

> ----------
> From:         DAsmussen@aol.com[SMTP:DAsmussen@aol.com]
> Sent:         Monday, November 10, 1997 1:38 PM
> To:   midrange-l@midrange.com
> Subject:      "Lucy, 'splain me!"  (Security Question)
> 
> OK Folks,
> 
> I'm obviously overlooking something here, so perhaps someone out there
> can
> point me in the right direction.  I have a user profile defined as
> user class
> *SECOFR, with *ALLOBJ special authority (among others) on a CISC
> system
> running V3R2 of OS/400.  Suddenly, perhaps after a PTF application,
> this user
> profile can no longer perform CHGUSRPRF or WRKDIRE -- it gets a
> "*SECADM
> special authority required" message for both functions.  As far as I
> can
> tell, both commands are still at the same factory default authority
> settings
> that they were when this profile _WAS_ able to perform these
> functions.
> 
> Under the old V2 releases, a profile like this could have changed the
> QSECOFR
> password.  So what gives?
> 
> TIA,
> 
> Dean Asmussen
> Enterprise Systems Consulting, Inc.
> Fuquay-Varina, NC  USA
> E-Mail:  DAsmussen@AOL.COM
> 
> "Experience is the one thing you have plenty of when you're too old to
> get
> the job." -- Unknown
> 
+---
| This is the Midrange System Mailing List!
| To submit a new message, send your mail to "MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com".
| To unsubscribe from this list send email to MAJORDOMO@midrange.com
|    and specify 'unsubscribe MIDRANGE-L' in the body of your message.
| Questions should be directed to the list owner/operator: david@midrange.com
+---