Re: Restricting User Access

[John Earl <johnearl@xxxxxxxxxx>]

At 12:11 PM 11/18/97 -0500, you wrote:
>on 11/17/97at 10:09 PM, the Great and Grand  Wazir John Earl
><johnearl@lns400.com> said:
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>I'm trying to set up a user ID on the '400 that basically is not authorized
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>to anything.  I would like to then set up specific objects (pgms) that the
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>user is authorized to.
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>Can you set up the user with an initial menu and initial program, where
>the only thing the profile can do is operate from that menu, or sign-off? 
>I've been thinking of a separate library for look-up data, work-files, and
>programs specific to that user's tasks.  I also made a new subsystem for
>the user's initial sign-in (with a unique ascii-art sign-in screen  -
>thanks Art, Vern, and all). 
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>In other words, my answer to your problem is to try to limit the grazing
>range to fenced in and protected stuff.

Booth,

This only works if you can keep that user from logging on to a PC.  Client
Access allows accesses that your menu system can't detect.  

The question about how to keep any user from getting at *PUBLIC authority
cuts right to the heart of the Client Access world.  If *PUBLIC has *USE
rights to an object, Client Access let's them read it, execute it, and
transfer it to their C: drive regardless of what your menu security says.
If *PUBLIC has *CHANGE, well you know where I'm headed....

Your idea about creating a separate library is a good one.  Be sure to give
the users only the access they need (*USE to programs, *USE or *CHANGE to
files as appropriate).  Client Access still must abide by OS/400 object
authority.  It's just that too often our object authority is set too loosely.


jte



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