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- From: cor@cs.sun.ac.za (Cor Winckler)
- Subject: Re: Multiple Developers in ABF/4GL (fwd)
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- Organization: National Radio Astronomy Observatory
- Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 00:51:18 GMT
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- From cor Wed Jan 20 19:50:25 1993
- Subject: Re: Multiple Developers in ABF/4GL
- To: horn@schaefer.math.wisc.edu (Jeffrey Horn)
- Date: Wed, 20 Jan 93 19:50:25 GMT+0200
- In-Reply-To: <1993Jan17.054034.16650@schaefer.math.wisc.edu>; from "Jeffrey Horn" at Jan 17, 93 5:40 am
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- Hi
-
- About multiple users editing the same ABF application:
-
- > 3.) Does anyone have any experiences (positive or negative) that they could
- > offer to help me make this situation work smoothly? Any ideas on what
- > worked or what you might have done differently?
-
- Beware of working under different usernames. We had to go through a whole
- change-of-ownership operation once because users were working under
- separate usernames. The problem is that front-end objects can exist for
- seperate users, say the users pete and jess can edit a form called
- 'entry'. After they have both editied it, there would be (at least) two
- copies, one owned by pete and one owned by jess, both with the same name.
- Now when Pete runs his , he sees his form called 'entry' and when jess
- runs the same application she sees her version of the form.
-
- You can see that you get confusion quite easily.
-
- Use one of Two solutions (i know of):
- Either work under one username, which is the easiest to get going.
-
- Give all development users dbadmin priviledges on the database you do
- development on. In this way they can all use the -u flag to enable them
- to use one generic username that will be the owner of all the front-end
- objects. If you use this way the users will have to be set up in
- Operating system groups (Unix or VMS) so that the application source
- code directory can be set up in order for the group to access it without
- the world having access.
-
- Allthough the first way is the easiest one, I prefer the second, because
- it allows for better security control on an Operating system level.
-
- Good luck with the setup!
-
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- Cor
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- Cor Winckler | Computer Science Departement
- Internet: cor@cs.sun.ac.za | University of Stellenbosch, South Africa
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- Cor
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- Cor Winckler | Computer Science Departement
- Internet: cor@cs.sun.ac.za | University of Stellenbosch, South Africa
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