| Title: | *OLD* ALL-IN-1 (tm) Support Conference |
| Notice: | Closed - See Note 4331.l to move to IOSG::ALL-IN-1 |
| Moderator: | IOSG::PYE |
| Created: | Thu Jan 30 1992 |
| Last Modified: | Tue Jan 23 1996 |
| Last Successful Update: | Fri Jun 06 1997 |
| Number of topics: | 4343 |
| Total number of notes: | 18308 |
ALL-IN-1 Version 3 introduces a new mechanism for Management
authentication (OA$MANAGER identifier and an initialization script),
which allows MANAGER and ADMIN form library references to be removed
from the profile. More space is therefore available for other FLB
references, and there is less overhead associated with process
initialization.
However, certain Management operations still require the MANAGER
and ADMIN FLB references to be recorded in the profile - e.g. an
account that is to be nominated as an Application Manager must have
them, as do designated accounts specified in SM_POLICIES. I find
this a little disappointing....why introduce the new and elegant
authentication mechanism, while still forcing the use of the
traditional requirement?
Thanks,
Steve
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| 277.1 | maybe another time | IOSG::TYLDESLEY | Thu Mar 19 1992 15:07 | 15 | |
Steve,
OA$MANAGER was indeed added as a means of authentication other than
simply the presence of the MANAGER library in the Profile. But the
accounts to which you refer, Manager itself, and the BATCH_ACCNT
account in Policies are used to run many, many batch jobs, from
User Management to Housekeeping. When they run, they assume that
form libraries MANAGER and ADMIN are open. For this reason, they
need to have the form libs in the Profile field. I remember we
considered at one stage going through all the relevant coms and
scripts adding explicit oa$flo_opens, but the task was too great
and risky at the time, and we didn't have the resource.
Sorry.
DaveT
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| 277.2 | The reasoning I heard... | IOSG::TALLETT | Mit Schuh bish hi | Fri Mar 20 1992 08:23 | 8 |
and I heard the reason for doing this was so that you could have
more than one MANAGER, and only the MANAGER that actually runs
the batch jobs needs the formlibs in his PROFIL. It does, however
seem to be causing some confusion.
Regards,
Paul
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| 277.3 | Was confused/am appreciative | GLOVES::ALLERTON | Steve Allerton 343-0205 | Fri Mar 20 1992 22:39 | 9 |
Dave/Paul,
Thanks for responding. Perhaps "disappointing" was a poor choice of
words. "Confusing" would have done the trick.
Regards,
Steve
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