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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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