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Conference iosg::all-in-1_v30

Title:	OLD ALL-IN-1 (tm) Support Conference
Notice:	Closed - See Note 4331.l to move to IOSG::ALL-IN-1
Moderator:	IOSG::PYE

Created:	Thu Jan 30 1992
Last Modified:	Tue Jan 23 1996
Last Successful Update:	Fri Jun 06 1997
Number of topics:	4343
Total number of notes:	18308

742.0. "Access Security for Distribution Lists" by MUTTON::LAMB (Peter Lamb - GSG Santa Clara) Thu May 21 1992 20:28

Hello,

Please excuse if this has been discussed before... I searched
both this notes file and the old one and couldn't find
anything...

A customer of mine would like to control access to the system
wide distribution list.  (ie high level managers and system
types only).  They are aware that they could mail distribution
lists arround and disable the system wide list but hesistate
to do this since those mailed lists would quickly get out
of date.

Does anyone have any suggestions?

Thanks!

peter

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742.1 Depends whether it's SUBSCRIBERS: or SDLs IOSG::SHOVE Dave Shove -- REO-D/3C Fri May 22 1992 12:49 18

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742.1	Depends whether it's SUBSCRIBERS: or SDLs	IOSG::SHOVE	Dave Shove -- REO-D/3C	`Fri May 22 1992 12:49`	18
	If you mean the use of SUBSCRIBERS: - it's easy. Upgrade to v3.0 - there's a user profile privilege that controls use of the SUBSCRIBERS: list. If you mean System Distribution Lists that they've set up themselves - well, they are files stored in the directory pointed to by logical OA$SYSTEM_LISTS. They're normally readable by all users: I suppose you could try putting ACLs on the files to limit the access to certain users. You would want to do a quick test of this to see how unfriendly the resulting error message is though! To find out which file corresponds to which List, do GET PROFIL.ADDR1["listname"] where listname includes the leading @ or trailing : Hope this helps, Dave.

    If you mean the use of SUBSCRIBERS: - it's easy. Upgrade to v3.0 -
    there's a user profile privilege that controls use of the SUBSCRIBERS:
    list.
    
    If you mean System Distribution Lists that they've set up themselves -
    well, they are files stored in the directory pointed to by logical
    OA$SYSTEM_LISTS. They're normally readable by all users: I suppose you
    could try putting ACLs on the files to limit the access to certain
    users. You would want to do a quick test of this to see how unfriendly
    the resulting error message is though! To find out which file
    corresponds to which List, do
    
    	GET PROFIL.ADDR1["listname"] 
    
    	where listname includes the leading @ or trailing :
    
    Hope this helps,
    Dave.