RE: Why do software companies always want ALLOBJ

[Jim Knight <jknight@xxxxxxx>]

We had the same problem here.  We refused to give them *ALLOBJ rights, period.
We changed the ownership of all of their objects to a unique user ID with
full rights, then assigned this as their group profile for dial in.  We also
created a program that the developers have to call to vary the dial up line
on, it then monitors usage and after a specified time, it cancels the dial in 
job,
varies off the line and disables the user profile for the vendor.  This way they
can only dial in with our permission.
jk


-----Original Message-----
From: Graziano, Marie [mailto:mgraziano@badgermeter.com]
Sent: Wednesday, September 13, 2000 8:37 AM
To: 'Midrange'
Subject: Why do software companies always want ALLOBJ


I am currently working with a software vendor that is asking for the userid
for the software to have ALLOBJ.  Now we all know that this is a very very
bad move.  However, in order to get the product up and running I had to do
it.  What are other companies doing?  And why do the software vendors not
understand what ALLOBJ is and does.  IF the user id was not used to sign in,
then I would not have a problem, but the software signs in with the userid
each day.

Marie Graziano

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