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Hi Walden,

I think the problem is that it doesn't know what the authority of the trigger program is because it doesn't have authority to the library the trigger program is in. Something like having lots of money but you can't spend it because it's locked up and you don't have the key.

Peter Dow
Dow Software Services, Inc.
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Walden H. Leverich wrote:
I've been somewhat following this thread and I'm confused/surprised by
how the authority is working (or not working).
I would have first expected that a user's authority to a trigger program
would either be ignored, or at least honor the adopted authority. I say
this because the trigger is, conceptually, a component of the DBMS.
Honoring the authority on the trigger program is somewhat akin to
preventing you from inserting a row into a physical because there's an
access path built over it that you don't have access to, and therefore
you can't update that access path.

However, I can accept that the design consideration was to honor
security, but they why ignore adopt? In the case of adopt I (the DBA)
have made the decision to allow this program to update a file, even if
the user running the program doesn't have access to the file. Why would
I want to then prevent the authority from flowing to the trigger?

Then, even if that's the design decision, the last thing I got from this
thread is that the trigger program wouldn't adopt authority, even if the
adopt was specified directly on the trigger program. While the other two
didn't make much sense, this makes absolutely no sense. Why would this
be the design? Does this make any sense to anyone?
One other thought, what if the trigger program called another program,
and _that_ program adopted authority, would the adoption then be
honored?

-Walden




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