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  3. November 2004

RE: security hole in interactive sql call statement?

>5) Because the call command is wide opened, the LMTCPB(*YES) has become
useless.  
>In the STRSQL session, programmer can do CALL QCMDEXC ('ANYCOMMAND',
000000010.0000) 
>to access any command.  (most command are shipped with *public *use, to
secure 
>every command is closed to impossible).

Why not restrict their rights to the QCMDEXC program? If they don't have
the right to call QCMDEXC then they can't get QCMDEXC to execute
anything. 

-Walden

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