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  3. March 2005

Re: ODBC and MS Access as a security exposure

Check the settings in the ODBC data source. Also, do you have exit points for client applications set up? This'd be in the WRKREGINF command on the iSeries. If you have a security product, this could stop you. There's also application admin in Ops Navigator - I forget whether ODBC control is in there.

HTH
Vern

At 06:41 PM 3/30/2005, you wrote: 
Hey all,

We're in the process of locking down such things, and the natives are
restless, and the crew is becoming mutinous (the power users are
complaining).

on green screen, we've got no problem - all the users have access to
is the application (no command line).   But some of our power users
access DB2/400 tables via MS Access

I have always operated under the assumption that if a user has *CHANGE
authority to a file, he could use a product such as MS Access to
change the data in a DB2/400 file via "linked tables" and ODBC.

I tested this, and it appears I'm wrong.  It errors out when I try to
change the linked table.  (I have *ALL access to the file).

What am I missing?

Thanks,

Rick
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