Re: Virtual Device spontaneous combustion!

At 14:57 04/13/1999 , John Earl wrote:
>Actually, no.  My problem stems from the fact that I have authorities (and an
>authority list) set on the device, and when the device gets deleted and 
>recreated,
>all my authorities go away.   This makes for the interesting situation where 
>someone
>can connect to the /400, delete an existing device description and then 
>create a new
>device that they are not authorized to use because the authority list is no 
>longer
>attached to the object.

Possibly an authority holder would help. I've never used them, but this is
similar to the function they perform - preserving object authority while
the object is deleted and then recreated.
Pete Hall
pbhall@execpc.com
http://www.execpc.com/~pbhall
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