Re: Primary Group Profile object attribute

Ed,

Like Ken I've tried to figure out how to use the Primary Group Profile
attribute on IFS files in a practical way, but am not having much luck. How
does one actually create a group of users with PGP? How is it managed? Let's
say I have 5 users that I want to give access to all files in an IFS
directory. How do I set up the user profiles, group profiles, and PGP
attribute. An example would be very helpful!

Thanks,
Patrick


----- Original Message -----
From: "Ed Fishel" <edfishel@us.ibm.com>
To: <midrange-l@midrange.com>
Sent: Friday, May 03, 2002 1:14 PM
Subject: Re: Primary Group Profile object attribute


>
> Kenneth,
>
> >I have always been a little confused with how to utilize the primary
group
> >profile (PGP) object attribute in a general application security scheme.
> >
> >I have used carefully thought out object ownership schemes along with
> >authority lists and program adoption to control access to our production
> >application objects and this has work very well. However, I've never
taken
> >into account primary group profiles.
> >
> >Is this an attribute that might be useful in setting up a simple yet
> >effective security scheme for controlling access to IFS objects?
>
> Yes, primary group authority can be used for IFS objects. The Change
> Primary Group (CHGPGP) command is used to change the primary group of an
> IFS object and to set their primary group authorities.
>
> The reason that primary group authority exists is to allow you to provide
> better performance than you may get by using private authorities on a
group
> profile. The primary group authority is stored in the header of the object
> so checking that authority will be faster than looking up private
> authorities in a group profile. Its performance should be comparable to
the
> performance of using public authority.
>
> Ed Fishel,
> edfishel@US.IBM.COM
>
>
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