Gibson,
  I depends.... ;-)...

  Can you give a more specific example?  You can give "different" access
rights if one of the users is in the same account. Other than that, I think
it's ACD time. NT and various Unix flavors have othe abilties, but ACD's do
very well. I'd venture to say that ACD's are less of a learning curve than
moving your users and applications to another OS.

  (IMHO) ACD's have a bad reputation in some circles because they're not
used often & people tend to forget they're there. If you build write options
into restores and learn to use listfile vs listf to see them, they become
"normal" and easy to manage.

  Just some thoughts on a slow (knock on wood) Monday.

RAT

   

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-----Original Message-----
From: Gibson Nichols [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
Sent: Monday, July 02, 2001 10:01 AM
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: MPE security - file access


I have two users in two different accounts who need different access rights
to some files in one account.  Like this:

USERA.ACCTA
USERB.ACCTB
FILEX.GROUPX.ACCTX

Since MPE bases the access rights on the account and group of the file then
I don't see a way of providing different access rights to users outside the
account.

I wouldn't want to use ACDs since those are so difficult to manage.

Isn't this an advantage some other operating systems would have over MPE?
This can be done in NT for example.

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