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Title:VAX and Alpha VMS
Notice:This is a new VMSnotes, please read note 2.1
Moderator:VAXAXP::BERNARDO
Created:Wed Jan 22 1997
Last Modified:Fri Jun 06 1997
Last Successful Update:Fri Jun 06 1997
Number of topics:703
Total number of notes:3722

364.0. "Bug or expected bahavior? Security." by CSC32::M_LOWENBERG () Fri Mar 21 1997 11:25

    If I have a common cluster queue file, do I have to have a common
    cluster security audit file?
    
    
    If the above is true , where is it documented?
    
    If the above is not true, then I think I found a bug!  
    - Customer has a common queue file but separate audit files.  He places
    a security acl on a queue to observe succesful:manage.  If I delete
    the queue from the node where the queue manager is running, the info
    is logged in the audit file.  If I delete the queue from another
    node, the event never makes it to the audit file.  The problem
    is specific to writing to the audit file, as any node will generate
    an alarm and send it to an operators terminal.
    
    
    comments???
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364.1See VMScluster Manual...XDELTA::HOFFMANSteve, OpenVMS EngineeringFri Mar 21 1997 13:538
   An OpenVMS VMScluster is a single security domain -- this means
   one SYSUAF, one RIGHTSLIST, one NETPROXY, and one NET$PROXY.

   For the documentation, see the Master Index entry under "Security;
   VMScluster requires single domain".  (This will point you to
   chapter five in the _VMScluster Systems for OpenVMS_ manual,
   in the documentation on preparing the shared environment.)
364.2AUSS::GARSONDECcharity Program OfficeSun Mar 23 1997 21:4724
    re .0    
    
    I couldn't reproduce this problem. I had a queue with the following ACE
    
    (AUDIT=SECURITY, ACCESS=MANAGE+SUCCESS)
    
    and on deleting the queue from a node where the queue manager does not
    reside, the audit file on the node where the queue manager does reside
    gained an "object deletion" event for the queue in question. No event
    was generated on the node where the function was requested.
    
    [The event was generated by the queue manager and the source PID
    identifies the original requesting process on the non-queue manager
    node.]
    
    I see some surprise value here in a number of areas but nothing too
    worrying.
    
    What version of VMS is involved?
    
    If you can reproduce this, please escalate formally with a log showing
    what commands were entered (e.g. ANAL/AUDIT) and on what machine and
    showing such things as SHOW QUEUE/FULL and (on both nodes) SHOW AUDIT
    and an indication of where the queue manager is running.