home *** CD-ROM | disk | FTP | other *** search
- Newsgroups: comp.databases
- Path: sparky!uunet!europa.eng.gtefsd.com!gatech!paladin.american.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!usc!sdd.hp.com!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!decwrl!pa.dec.com!engage.pko.dec.com!nntpd.lkg.dec.com!nntpd2.cxo.dec.com!tincup.enet.dec.com!lindsey
- From: lindsey@tincup.enet.dec.com (Randy Lindsey)
- Subject: Re: Program Rights in NetWare?
- Message-ID: <1993Jan28.191726.12449@nntpd2.cxo.dec.com>
- Sender: usenet@nntpd2.cxo.dec.com (USENET News System)
- Organization: Colorado Software Solutions, Inc.
- References: <C19KDv.1JH@ms.uky.edu>
- Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1993 19:13:46 GMT
- Lines: 28
-
-
- In article <C19KDv.1JH@ms.uky.edu>, hgpeach@ms.uky.edu (Harold G. Peach, Jr.) writes...
- >I am designing a database for use on a NetWare 386 LAN. What I would like
- >to setup is a system where users enter information into a temporary file
- >stored in a directory they have RW access to. Then after validation,
- >have the entry program append the transaction file to a master file
- >kept in a subdirectory that only the supervisor has RW access to. Is
- >there a way to give a program file/subdirectory access that the user using
- >the program does not have? I know this can be done under UNIX and several
- >other platforms, but don't see anything in my Novell reference about how
- >to do it in NetWare.
- >---
- >Harold G. Peach, Jr. Home Phone: (606) 271-6393
-
- On a network, you can't allow programs to have rights--because anybody
- could create their own program and endow it with any rights they wanted
- to give it. The network can't guarantee that the program you *say* you're
- running on your remote system is the one it *thinks* you're running. So
- only the user has any rights.
-
- That said, you can give everybody Write-only access to a directory. They
- can put data into it, but can't view or change data, including overwriting
- existing files. So anybody could copy an entire file to that directory.
- They couldn't, however, append to an existing file. You'd just have to
- have a privileged user periodically run a program to collect all the little
- files and append them to the main one. This applies to Novell, anyway.
-
- -Randy
-