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Subject: RE: [Security400] Authority annoyances, continued...
From: Buck Calabro <Buck.Calabro@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 22 Aug 2001 12:00:29 -0400
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>Create a job description that will be used to submit the
>back up job to batch. Ensure that the USER parameter
>of the job description specifies the new user (eg.
>USER(BACKUPUSER)). Any job submited to batch
>using this job description will then run under the new user profile.

Not a guru, so this may be wrong, but can't I (a mere operator) do: sbmjob
cmd(grtobjaut...) jobd(backupjobd) and give myself authority to anything?
Why is this better than having the CL program adopt required authority?

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