| 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 |
Hello,
Would appreciate an explanation for the following behavior:
> the "world" has no access to the 000000.dir file where
user's ALL-IN-1 directory resides on,
> when the user logs into ALL-IN-1 for the first time after
logging to VMS, user gets protection error on ACTITEM.DAT,
> user exits ALL-IN-1 (in and out) and gets back into ALL-IN-1
no protection error on ACTITEM.DAt is generated.
Where does the user's process get the necessary privilege to
not generate the error?
Thanks!
Dan
note: when the "world" has "execute" protection on 000000.dir
the above behavior is not noticed.
| T.R | Title | User | Personal Name | Date | Lines |
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| 1364.1 | VMS 'feature' ... | AIMTEC::VOLLER_I | Gordon (T) Gopher for President | Fri Sep 04 1992 19:14 | 16 |
Dan,
Once a file has been successfully accessed by VMS (via ALL-IN-1
privileges for example) then information about the file (File Id
etc) is cached by the file system.
Subsequent accesses of the file are able to bypass the normal
security checks of each intervening directory file (as if the
file was accessed directly by File Id).
In this case the only security check is on the file itself. In
the example you have given than VMS is correct to allow access.
Cheers,
Iain.
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| 1364.2 | Not considered a security problem by VMS | IOSG::TALLETT | Arranging bits for a living... | Mon Sep 14 1992 11:36 | 10 |
This has been discussed a lot in more VMS specific notesfiles
and is NOT considered a security problem. In short, the official
line is that you should not try to protect files by protecting
the directories they belong to, as anyone can access the file
by file-id and bypass the directory completely. The only safe way
to protect a file is to protect it, not its directory.
Regards,
Paul
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