Re: AS400 Class *USER and special authority *SECADM

Dennis,

*SECADM alone does not convey any authority to work with any object (including USRPRF objects), so having *SECADM alone will not allow you to automatically change or delete existing profiles.

*SECADM alone would allow someone to create new profiles though, and that would be undesirable in many circumstances. In the original question, it would be far better to give the *SECADM to a program (through adopted authority) than to give it to an end user.

jte



On Mar 24, 2010, at 5:07 AM, Dennis Lovelady wrote:

True a *USER can perform *SECADM tasks but there is a caveat; they must
also have the appropriate rights to the objects they are working on,
for
instance the user profile. User A has rights to users B, C, and D, but
not to E, F, and G. User A would would be able to work on B, C, and D.
User A would not be able to administer E, F, and G.

Jim, what command was used that lists the users and limits that list to four
profiles for user A?

Did you actually try changing any user who wasn't in that list? My
understanding is that *SECADM authority gives the right to change security
regardless of other contrived privileges to profiles. *EXCLUDE may (but
probably should not) override this.

Dennis Lovelady
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