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Re: [nls-technical] augment private file

To: Raylene Pak <raylene_pak@sbcglobal.net>
Cc: NLS Restoration Technical Discussion <nls-technical@chm.cim3.net>
From: Jonathan Cheyer <jonathan@cheyer.biz>
Date: Wed, 14 Dec 2005 00:00:44 -0800
Message-id: <439FD12C.90307@cheyer.biz>
Raylene,    (01)

That was just the information I was looking for! I'm now able to look 
through the ioexec file.    (02)

Thanks!    (03)

Jonathan    (04)


Raylene Pak wrote:
> Jonathan,
> Augment has its own private file protection seperate from the TOPS20 
> file protection.  The <>Set <>Protection command allows you to set the 
> protection status for a file.  The Augment protection status restricts 
> file access based on user idents.  The ident(s) of user(s) allowed to 
> access a file are placed in a specially formatted string in the origin 
> statement of that file.  This is also applicable to journal documents 
> via the restricted access email header field.
> The ioexec file contains the code that implements this Augment file 
> protection.  In the past, knowledgeable users were spoofing their idents 
> to gain access to files that they weren't supposed to have access to.  
> At one point in time, I changed the code to prevent this type of ident 
> spoofing.  To keep the rogue users from examining the new code to 
> determine a means of circumventing it, I restricted the access to that 
> file to Doug and myself.  To access the ioexec file, log in as pak - the 
> password for that should be the same as that for the operator.  When you 
> enter Augment, if you are prompted for an ident, use rdp.bi.  If you run 
> into any problems, let me know; I'm not entirely sure how I left my 
> account on the released version of Augment.  Once you are viewing the 
> file, you probably want to add the prog.chm ident to the access list in 
> the origin statement and do an Update New command.  Then you should be 
> able to access the file logging in as programmer.
> Raylene    (05)

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