Brad Feazell writes:
>
> I'm looking for a way to set POSIX file permissions from MPE. For instance,
> I'd like to do something equivalent to:
>
>   chmod 755 /APACHE/PUB/cgi-bin/myfile

Try:

        :XEQ CHMOD.HPBIN.SYS '755 /APACHE/PUB/cgi-bin/myfile'

> I tried ...
>
>   ALTSEC ./cgi-bin/x;access=(r,w:ANY)
>
> but that didn't work. Is there a way to do this?

You can do it with :ALTSEC, but you need to specify a rather complex ACD.  It's
far easier to let chmod create the ACD for you (POSIX permissions are
implemented via ACDs).
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