RE: Losing Authority to a file in Batch

> well.... would it be any diff if C:\>rmtcmd //gdisys call
> pgmxxx
> and pgmxxx is compiled to *owner.

Yes - a big difference - pgmxxx typically has a scoped set of work that
a user can do such as "add a record" or Maintain Customer Info", or some
such thing. and _within_the_context_of_that_program's_instructions_, the
user is allowed to read or change data to the referenced files.

Otherwise, at the rmtcmd prompt, the user is authorized to run any
command that they (or *PUBLIC) is authorized to, and execute that
command against any file that the user (or *PUBLIC) is authorized to.
That's a huge difference.  

Adopted authority allows you to scope a user's access to a file - the
scope being the set of instructions that are already compiled into the
adopted authority program.

jte

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