Re: Op's nav - Graphical UPDDTA

One person suggested to me privately that I look at 
their security package.  We've already purchased PentaSafe 
and will install it one of these days, email takes sooo 
much of my time ;-) 

These security packages will lock down a lot of this.  
But then again you're at the following scenario
1)  If you allow someone to use a package that uses ODBC 
to update FIELDA of FILEB then pretty much any ODBC 
connection will be able to update FIELDA of FILEB for that user.





clewis@iquest.net on 03/27/2000 04:15:22 PM
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Colin,

You are NOT kidding !!!

I have been  setting us up with Frame Relay at remote sites to replace leased 
lines
and doing this via TCP/IP. I've also started allowing users internet access and
their PC's are doing this via TCP/IP of course.

Suprise, suprise -  not, (granted this is a "private" network), from a PC with 
NO
Client Access ANYTHING, no AS/400 setup previously,  I FTP'd and Telnet'd to the
AS/400 with NO problem...

Chuck

Colin McNaught wrote:

>      Rob,
>
>      Turning off the Database portion of Operations Navigator will not
>      resolve this glaring security breach. If someone wants to get to your
>      database they don't need to use Operations Navigator, ftp, file
>      transfer or even windows explorer will do the job just as easily.
>      The only safe way is to use object security.
>
>      Regards,
>
>      Colin
>
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> Subject: Op's nav - Graphical UPDDTA
> Author:  Rob Berendt <rob@dekko.com> at Internet
> Date:    24/03/00 13:24
>
> 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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