RE: Securing an outq

You'll find lots of good info on this topic in the archive, but in your
case, change the out queue in question to OPRCTL(*NO).  This prevents
users with *JOBCTL from having carte blanche access to everything in the
queue.

Jte


 

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> That's the problem. The users' group authority, which is
> granted from the
> ERP package, contains JOBCTL special authority. This is
> required by the
> package. We use menu level security, No-one has a command
> line, so I guess
> I stuck with a file based system.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Mark
> 
> Mark D. Walter
> Senior Programmer/Analyst
> CCX, Inc.
> mwalter@xxxxxxxxxx
> http://www.ccxinc.com
> 
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> 
> Look in the archives for SPLCTL and JOBCTL. OUTQ security
> is a little
> weird. You should probably refer tot he Tips and Tools for
> Securing Your
> iSeries. To quote,
> 
> >A user with *SPLCTL special authority can see any spooled
> file on the
> >system, no matter what efforts you make to secure your
> output queues.
> 
> There is a section in the Security manual on Printing in
> the Work
> Management chapter (near page 186). Read until you
> understand it well.
> 
> Clearly you need to check for users with *SPLCTL special
> authority.
> There're reports in GO SECTOOLS that'll show this,
> including mismatches
> between user class and special authorities. There's also a
> PRTQAUT command
> that can be called from that menu.
> 
> HTH
> 
> Vern
> 
> At 10:51 AM 6/23/2003 -0400, you wrote:
> >Is there a way, short of running a third part application
> to secure an
> >outq. I've tried giving *public *exclude authority to the
> outq, but users
> >can still see the outq and its contents. Maybe an exit
> point or something.
> >
> >Thanks,
> >
> >Mark
> >
> >Mark D. Walter
> >Senior Programmer/Analyst
> >CCX, Inc.
> >mwalter@xxxxxxxxxx
> >http://www.ccxinc.com
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