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Re: Note: WRKLNK is not the same as a 'share'!

Considering the SERIOUS CONSEQUENCES of allowing read-write shares to
the root of the IFS, in these days of "Ramsomware" attacks, etc., I
think we need an RFC and get everyone to vote on it, such that IBM
permanently "bans" all read-write "shares" of the root file system on
IBM i.

What do you all think?

I think you must mean an RFE. The last time I checked, an RFC was a document defining some Internet-related or otherwise open-standards-related rule, protocol, or (as we say in the NMRA, which was doing open standards back when ENIAC was new technology) recommended practice. And I support the idea. There's no reason why the root of any OS should be publicly shared, least of all with write access.

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JHHL

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