Re: Authority to libraries

[Paul Tuohy <tuohyp@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Tom, you put that so politely :-). Not only am I not entirely accurate, 
I am totally inaccurate. I was thinking implementation as opposed to 
actuality.

Apologies for any confusion I may have caused.

Excuse me now, my humble pie is starting to burn.

Paul

Tom Liotta wrote:
> midrange-l-request@xxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
>
>
> >  9. Re: Authority to libraries (Paul Tuohy)
> >
> > Adopted authority ( USRPRF(*OWNER) ) overrides *PUBLIC authority. If you 
> > have explicity excluded a profile from the library then adopted 
> > authority is not going to help.
>
>
> Paul, I don't think this is entirely accurate. Can you elaborate?
>
> I have library(TEST) where user WEAKUSER has been granted *EXCLUDE from the library object. I have the following TESTCL CLP:
>
>   dsplib TEST
>
>   crtdupobj  FILE TEST  *file  TEST FILEx  data(*YES)
>
> The CLP is usrprf(*OWNER) and *PUBLIC *USE; I am the owner and library TEST is all mine. WEAKUSER also has explicit *EXCLUDE from FILE.
>
> When WEAKUSER runs TESTCL without usrprf(*OWNER), it fails immediately at the dsplib with CPF2182, Not authorized to library TEST. But usrprf(*OWNER) lets it run to completion with no errors. FILEX is created and WEAKUSER is the owner -- of course, there's now nothing that WEAKUSER can do with it.
>
> I have a second file in TEST that I'm not authorized to. If I change the crtdupobj to reference that file, then TESTCL fails at crtdupobj.
>
> Are there further issues?
>
> Tom Liotta