Dear 'Perplexed in Toronto',

  > but how does not having the state-change timestamp initialized cause
  > an mpe fopen security violation for all but AM or greater users?

  I don't think that an uninitialized State-Change field has anything to do
  with security violations.  However, there may be other Posix file-attributes
  that do.  The paper I referred to covers many of these Posix-related issues,
  albeit in a long-winded manner (it was hard to write, it should be hard to
  understand!).

  Try doing a %LISTF ,POSIX on the file(s) in question, followed by a %LISTF
  ,SEC.  You'll probably find that the file either has ACDs assigned that
  restrict access, and/or that its Posix Group field doesn't match the Account
  in which it's located.

  Paul Taffel

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Subject: RE: What is "state"
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Date:    6/19/97 3:44 PM



Thank you Paul, but how does not having the state-change timestamp
initialized cause an mpe fopen security violation for all but AM or
greater users? The only work around I've found is to release the files
concerned, something my grandmother always told me was a bad idea :-)

John "still wondering" Pickering
JWP Systems Inc.
Toronto