Remove VMS File Protection

[Karen Lee_3]

I can't remember the syntax to change file protection from (s:rwe,o:rwed,g:re)
to remove the group access - how do you make it (g:) ?

[Jim_McKinney · Accepted solution]

$ SET FILE/PROT=G filename.ext

[Wim Van den Wyngaert]

set file x /prot=g

Wim

[Karen Lee_3]

thanks guys

[John Gillings]

Karen,

Jim and Wim are, of course correct, but the syntax is old (though not quite obselete). The more general method of changing the security profile of files and other objects is with SET SECURITY.

$ SET SECURITY/CLASS=FILE/PROTECTION=(G) file

In this case it's longer than the SET FILE equivalent, but given the complex syntax of security related commands, it probably makes sense to familiarise yourself, and routinely use the more general command as it applies to everything.