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So I'm continuing down my Journey of Enlightenment with authorization.  I'm comfortable with using authorization lists, and it's really nice to set the CRTAUT parameter on a library to a default authorization list.  But I'm running into a situation that I can't quite bring to an intuitive resolution.

I have an AUTL in the CRTAUT parameter of the library.  My AUTL has three entries: *PUBLIC *EXCLUDE, the owner of the AUTL has *ALL authority, and a second profile has *USE authority.  The basic idea is to have one full access user (the owner) and one read-only access user.  Individual user profiles that need access to the objects use one of those two as their group profile, and nobody else has access.  Simple enough.  I created a program to reset all the objects in a library and I thought the simplest would be to revoke all individual authorities and limit all access to the authorization list.  Done that way, authorities look like this:

  Object secured by authorization list  . . . . . . . . . . . .   MVXDATA

Object
User        Group Authority
*PUBLIC *EXCLUDE

This works as desired.  Only the profiles in the authorization list have access.  I'd love this to be the default, and to be honest it's kind of what I expected would be assigned to a new object in the library.  But when I create a new object, it gets this authority:

  Object secured by authorization list  . . . . . . . . . . . .   MVXDATA

Object
User        Group Authority
*PUBLIC *AUTL
*GROUP      MOVEX *ALL

I sort of understand the *PUBLIC *AUTL rather than *PUBLIC *EXCLUDE.  That allows me to actually open the objects up to public use through the authorization list should I choose to do so.  But what bothers me is the entry for MOVEX.  MOVEX is the owner of the authorization list.  MOVEX has *ALL authority in my authorization list.  Do I also need it in each object?  I guess I'm wondering what would be the downside of removing the private authority for user MOVEX and instead relying solely on the authorization list?  Sure, if I change the authorization list I can theoretically remove access for even the file's owner, but that's on me (and is easy to fix).

I just think it's cleaner to remove all private authority, even for the owner.  But maybe I'm missing something?




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