Re: OS400/Unix authority settings

[Vern Hamberg <vhamberg@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Yeah, one could use tar or jar - the latter can be run so as not to 
create the manifest file that Java expects, I think. Otherwise, it is 
essentially a zip file. With lots of levels of compression available, too.

And this can be run with QShell, too!

Vern

On 12/16/2010 8:30 PM, Dennis Lovelady wrote:
> But the caveat here (and maybe someone already said it; sorry if I missed
> it) is that regardless the permissions on your system, when you send them
> via FTP they will be set to that system's default umask.  Changes made to
> permissions on your system will not carry forward elsewhere.  If you're
> sending another way (scp, for example, or via zip/tar file to be extracted)
> things may be different.
>
> Dennis Lovelady
> http://www.linkedin.com/in/dennislovelady
> --
> Nothing is foolproof to a sufficiently talented fool.
>
>
> > You don't even have to go into the QShell environment - you can run the
> > qsh command simply from CL, as there
> >
> > strqsh cmd('chmod 644 filename')
> >
> > That's it. This always returns a QSH0005 message as a completion
> > message
> > by default. You might want to set an environment variable, so that an
> > error condition comes back as an escape message. The environment
> > variable is QIBM_QSH_CMD_ESCAPE_MSG and needs to be set to 'Y' to get
> > the escape message QSH0005 (when return status is>  0)
> >
> > The first number is permissions for the owner of the object (read/write,
> > or *RW in CHGAUT, although I don't know if CHGAUT can set the unix
> > permissions the same way). The second number is for groups - a unix
> > group, there are some equivalents in IFS. It is read in this case. The
> > last number is for others - *PUBLIC is exactly the same - and is read
> > in
> > this case.
> >
> > read = 4
> > write = 2
> > execute = 1
> >
> > You add up what you want and use that number. There are several other
> > syntactical ways to do this in the chmod utility. There's a QShell
> > manual in InfoCenter.
> >
> > On 12/16/2010 2:46 PM, fbocch2595@xxxxxxx wrote:
> > > So, you think just strqsh then chmod 644 filename will do it?  That's
> > not too painful, I guess.
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: BMay@xxxxxxxxx
> > > To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion<midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > > Sent: Thu, Dec 16, 2010 3:15 pm
> > > Subject: Re: OS400/Unix authority settings
> > >
> > >
> > > The simplest and fastest way to give them exactly what they want is
> > to use
> > > he chmod command in Qshell or PASE.  So you could use QP2SHELL or
> > STRQSH
> > > o issue the command "chmod 644 filename"
> > > That's of the top of my head, I am not where I can test it at the
> > moment.
> > > Brian May
> > > roject Lead
> > > anagement Information Systems
> > > aran, Incorporated
> > > tarkville, Mississippi
> > >
> > > fbocch2595@xxxxxxx
> > > ent by: midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx
> > > 2/16/2010 01:57 PM
> > > lease respond to
> > > idrange Systems Technical Discussion<midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > >
> > > o
> > > idrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx
> > > c
> > > Subject
> > > S400/Unix authority settings
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > Hi Folks, Merry Christmas/Happy Holidays!
> > > I'm working with a biz partner who's requiring the permissions on IFS
> > > iles to be set to
> > > 44(rw-r--r--) on files that I send to his system from our AS400's.
> > > What would be the IFS authority settings, if any, that would
> > correspond to
> > > 44(rw-r--r--)?  Is there any place to find that info?
> > > Thanks, Frank
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