topic Remove Group & world in Operating System - OpenVMS

Remove Group & world

Aaron Lewis_1 — Tue, 10 Oct 2006 10:53:49 GMT

I have a couple of files with protection of:

s:RWED, o:RWED, g:R, w:R

I need to remove the group & world Read privilages. I've tried the SET SEC/PROT, and SET FILE/PROT, with a blank G & W
PROT=(S:RWED,O:RWED,G:,W:)
but I just get a missing qualifer error message. How can I remove the Read access?

Re: Remove Group & world

Richard Whalen — Tue, 10 Oct 2006 10:56:49 GMT

$ set file/prot=(g,w) a.a
removes the group and world protection for me. I think that your problem was that the DCL parser assumes that there is a value present when the : is used.

Re: Remove Group & world

Joseph Huber_1 — Tue, 10 Oct 2006 10:59:36 GMT

It is just how the DCL parsing of defaults work.

Just leave off the ":":

set file/prot=(G,W) files,...

Re: Remove Group & world

Aaron Lewis_1 — Tue, 10 Oct 2006 10:59:44 GMT

Thanks Richard, I was trying with G:, and W:, the (g,w) worked fine. I knew I should have had that 11th cup of coffee this morning. :)