IFS security

[scooke]

Does anyone know how the security is handled? It appears that longreach is the owner. How does it know to separate the users?

[alick]

Each user reads and writes to the IFS using their own user profile.

All files are tagged with CCSID 1208.

WRKLNK command and 8=Display attributes

Object . . . . . . : /longreachdata/user/ALICK/mydocument.txt
Type . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . : STMF
Owner . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . : ALICK
Coded character set ID . . . . . . . . : 1208

When a file or folder is created it inherits authority from the parent folder.

To exclude public access or to allow other user profiles, edit the authority of the parent folder.

For example the top level folder for a LongReach user is

/longreachdata/user/{NAME}

where {NAME} is the signon profile name

If I set the authority of the folder for ALICK

/longreachdata/user/ALICK

Then all created child folders and files will inherit the authorities of this folder.

The LONGREACH user profile owns the LongReach server job and any access, log and trace files created by the server.