Re: VIRUS Alert for the LIST

In one shop, we created a user with password(*none), spcaut(*allobj), gave
this user ownership of all BPCS objects, and change all BPCS programs to
adopt authorization, no user had real authorization over the objects.  So if
you want to delete an object with BPCS it will run, but no if do it any
other way.

Yes, it had a some impact over performance but, it's a price you had to pay
for security.

Emilio Padilla

----- Original Message -----
From: "Chuck Lewis" <clewis@iquest.net>
To: <MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com>
Sent: Martes 28 de Diciembre de 1999 04:17 AM
Subject: Re: VIRUS Alert for the LIST


Amen !

Personally, I am SO glad that I do not have to be responsible for the mess
THAT shop is
in. I TRIED in vain to explain the risks of doing something like that. And
this was back
in the pre-TCP/IP days of the AS/400 (unless you had purchased it...), EARLY
ODBC days
and I could SEE where this was headed (and no, I DON'T claim to be prophetic
<BG> !)...

Chuck

"L. S. Russell" wrote:

> Glad to see I am not the only one who has been unsuccessful in arguing
with those NCS
> consultants. Now I don't feel so bad :)
>
> Chuck Lewis wrote:
>
> > HOW could I have forgotten THAT !!!
> >
> > I remember WELL at my last job, the BPCS consultants convincing the
powers that be
> > (over my objections) that "we need to have all object authority granted
so this
> > will run..." Dumb, dumb, dumb...
> >
> > Chuck
> >
> > "L. S. Russell" wrote:
> >
> > > BPCS users are!
> > >
> > > On Mon, 27 Dec 1999, John P Carr wrote:
> > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > >Rob Berendt@rob@dekko.com@SMTP@EXCHCONNECT
> > > > >Again, this boils down to how you define a virus.  If some
shareware
> > > > >decides to delete everything in QSYS is that a virus?
> > > >
> > > > It would have to have "Authority" to do that.    How many
users/programers
> > > > could put a 4 next to all the objects in QSYS and delete alot of
them?
> > > >
> > > > Alot I bet.
> > > >
> > > > Are Programers and Users viruses?
> > > >
> > > > John Carr
> > > >
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