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Subject: RE: VMS tapes : overriding OWNER_IDENTIFIER field
In-reply-to: your article <3294EB562.21200D78.1985@ACF7.NYU-ACF7.ARPA>

I apologize for reply directly to the net, but I cannot figure out any way
to send private mail from my (uucp only) site to the author of the article
replied to herein.

In article <3294EB562.21200D78.1985@ACF7.NYU-ACF7.ARPA>, TIHOR@NYU-ACF7.ARPA (Stephen Tihor) writes:
>The long transcript that follows shows why I thought that OWNER_IDENTIFIER
>does no bypass tape labels for a NON-PRIVILEGED user with accessibility "1"
>tapes.  Could you be more specific about how OVERRIDE=OWNER_IDENT bypasses
>tape label restrictions?  Should I use ACCESSIBILTY="A" tapes, ACCESS=" "
>(aka UNPROTECTED) tapes?
>
>-----------transcript follows------------
>...
>$ set host acf6
>Username: unprivileged user
>Password:
>	Welcome to VAX/VMS version V4.2 on node ACF6
>    Last interactive login on Monday, 25-NOV-1985 13:16
>    Last non-interactive login on Friday,  4-OCT-1985 17:08
>$ mount mfa0: semise
>%MOUNT-I-WRITELOCK, volume is write locked
>%MOUNT-I-MOUNTED, SEMISE mounted on _ACF6$MFA0:
>$ dir mfa0:/full
>
>Directory MFA0:[]
>
>TAPES.MAI;1                   File ID:  (1,1,1)
>...
>File protection:    System:RWED, Owner:RWED, Group:RWED, World:RWED
>...
>Access Cntrl List:  None
>
>$ ty mfa0:tapes.mai
>%TYPE-W-OPENIN, error opening MFA0:[]TAPES.MAI;1 as input
>-RMS-E-PRV, insufficient privilege or file protection violation
>$ sho mag mfa0:
>
>Magtape ACF6$MFA0:, device type TU78, is online, allocated, deallocate on
>    dismount, mounted, software write-locked, file-oriented device, error
>    logging is enabled.
>
>    Error count                  148    Operations completed             317698
>    Owner process           "TIHORS"    Owner UIC                  [VMS,SYSTEM]
>    Owner process ID        20C00DC3    Dev Prot        S:RWED,O:RWED,G:ED,W:ED
                                         ^^^^^^^^                           ^^^^
Might this have something to do with the problem?  What if the protection on
the tape device were set to W:RED?
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