I'm afraid you are going to have to use ACDs.  That's really the only way to
grant access across accounts.

ACDs, or permissions, are used on most other platforms.  It's just that MPE
maintains a ACCOUNT/GROUP structure.

Later

Gibson Nichols wrote:

> 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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