Hello all,

I have just noticed an anomoly with the RENAME command on
our system, and was wondering if anybody else had seen it.

We are on 5.5 PP6.

It seems that the RENAME command no longer requires you to be
the creator of the file in order to perform the rename.    :))  ...  :((

The MPE help says,

     MPE Files      To rename an MPE file, you must be the file's
                    creator and have exclusive access to the file. If
                    you specify groupname or acctname, you must have
                    save access to the group or account.  Users with
                    System Manager (SM) capability can rename any file
                    to any location on the system.

which is contrary to the actual behaviour  on our system.

Example :-

:listuser !hpuser
********************
USER: OPERATOR.VIP
HOME GROUP: CMD                 PASSWORD: **
MAX PRI   : 150                 LOC ATTR: $00000000
LOGON CNT : 1
CAP: AL,GL,OP,CV,UV,LG,PS,ND,SF,BA,IA,MR,DS,PH

:mpex listf mrd@,3@
ACCOUNT=  VIP      GROUP=  CMD
FILENAME CODE  CREATOR  CRE-DATE  MOD-DATE  MOD-TIME  ACC-DATE  RST-DATE
MRD2           OPERATOR 17 JUN 99 17 JUN 99 02:24 PM 17 JUN 99 17 JUN 99
MRD4           MNGR     17 JUN 99 17 JUN 99 03:24 PM 17 JUN 99 17 JUN 99
GROUP     TOTAL:     2 FILES                                 0 SECTORS

:rename mrd4,mrd3

:mpex listf mrd@,3
ACCOUNT=  VIP      GROUP=  CMD
FILENAME CODE  CREATOR  CRE-DATE  MOD-DATE  MOD-TIME  ACC-DATE  RST-DATE
MRD2           OPERATOR 17 JUN 99 17 JUN 99 02:24 PM 17 JUN 99 17 JUN 99
MRD3           MNGR     17 JUN 99 17 JUN 99 03:51 PM 17 JUN 99 17 JUN 99
GROUP     TOTAL:     2 FILES                                 0 SECTORS

Regards,

Tad.





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