From: utzoo!decvax!ucbvax!info-vax
Newsgroups: fa.info-vax
Title: VMS file protections
Article-I.D.: ucbvax.263
Posted: Tue Dec  7 20:11:11 1982
Received: Thu Dec  9 01:37:37 1982

>From coar.umass@UDel-Relay  Tue Dec  7 18:54:37 1982
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Remailed-From: the tty of Geoffrey S. Goodfellow  <Geoff5 at SRI-CSL>
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At a not-too-recent Local Users' Group meeting, the
subject came up (we were discussing DECnet) about
network access to licensed software. Something like
SPSS is licensed to a particular site, but network
users can access it according to the WORLD protection
field.

I proposed the following changes to the protection
scheme, and got head-nods and mumbles of agreement,
but nothing more. So I'm posting it to the net to
see how it sits with the Outer World. Please send
comments to me, and I'll post the final results
after a few weeks.

Proposed change: Change the access of everything
that now goes through the SYSTEM protection field
to either have RWED access AT ALL TIMES, or to use
the same access rights as OWNER. (With BYPASS available,
the latter seems better.) Use the four bits currently
in the SYSTEM field for NETWORK access, so that such
things as licensed software is available to local
users, but not to other sites.

How does that sit with you folks?

	ken
	coar@umass