Re: Op's nav - Graphical UPDDTA

Rob,

From within OpsNav, select the AS/400 server that you want to secure, and
click the right mouse button. Select "Application Administration".

Another option is to create a set of Policy files if your client machines
are running Win9x or WinNT.

Good luck,

John Taylor
Canada

----- Original Message -----
From: "Rob Berendt" <rob@dekko.com>
To: <MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com>
Sent: Friday, March 24, 2000 11:24
Subject: Op's nav - Graphical UPDDTA


> How do we turn off the Database portion of Operations
> Navigator?  I played with this before but it took a seminar
> yesterday to point out this glaring security breach to me
> yesterday.  Granted we could use object security, but the
> reality of that being implemented anytime soon is slim to
> none.  The breach is this:
> Open Op's nav
> Expand your 400
> Select database
> Select libraries
> Select a library
> Find a database and double click on it.
> There you go, a graphical UPDDTA, for all your users to share!
>  And if you right click on the database, you can add fields and
> do all sorts of funky things to a table.  Graphical DDS?
>
> Please, no flames on how I shouldn't ask the list this question,
> because then more people will know about this hole.  The hole
> already exists.  How do we plug it?
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