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- From: JENNYE@NAIT.AB.CA (Jenny Evans)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.vms
- Subject: Re: SYSUAF.DAT access?
- Message-ID: <9301221030.AA01154@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU>
- Date: 21 Jan 93 15:07:09 GMT
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- I may have missed some of the replies to this one, so I apologize if this has
- already been resolved.
-
- Does this user need to run AUTHORIZE to make changes, or is it just read only.
- If it is just read only, I suggest periodically (daily, hourly, whatever
- works) running a job that does a list/full from AUTHORIZE and allowing the
- user access to the .LIS file.
-
- If access is required for making changes, you might as well just give out the
- password to SYSTEM and forget about security. This becomes a problem of
- politics, not VAX. Does your boss and whoever is making this request
- understand that the system manager can no longer be responsible for anything
- that may go wrong on your system? If they do and still want this, I'd get that
- in writing.
-
- I suggest a partial solution. Write a .com file for this user to run. It
- should prompt for entry of the necessary AUTHORIZE commands and create another
- COM file containing these commands. Then you run the second .COM file at
- certain agreed times, but you can see what is being changed before running. If
- you want more explanation and/or example, please ask.
-
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