Re: Adopted authority

[Pete Hall <pbhall@xxxxxxxxxx>]

At 17:29 05/13/1999 , Jessica Miller wrote:
>I am needing to write a program, command, or whatever, that will enable my 
>users
>to adopt a higher authority when they want to delete or vary on/off a device.
>All the users will be at *USER.  What would be the best way for me to do this?

Write and compile the program. Then, after everything is working, change
the program object's owner to a profile that can run VRYCFG - CHGOBJOWN
NEWOWN(usrprf), then change the program to adopt the authority of the owner
- CHGPGM USRPRF(*OWNER). As long as the user is authorized to run your
program, (s)he will be able to run the VRYCFG command. Programs like this
should be very limited. Don't do anything other than the function that
requires the extra authority, and never allow access to a command line
while the program is active.


Pete Hall
pbhall@execpc.com
http://www.execpc.com/~pbhall
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