Hi Peter....

Thanks for the insight.  The update of customer-info would explain all my mods
except one--the one where 'last modifier' does not even have permission to see
the support-staff account alledgedly modified by them, either directly or as
potential customer for an incident report.  Your observation helps tremendously.

Don W. McClure, P.E.
Data Administrator & System Engineer
Computing & IT Center, Call Tracking Administration
University of North Texas, Denton
dwmac_at_unt.edu

"That which counts cannot necessarily be counted: that which can be counted 
will not always count."  -- Albert Einstein

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Sent: Friday, May 23, 2008 7:08 AM
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Subject: Re: ITSM 7 Support Staff permissions

Is it possible that when you pull a person into an incident as a Customer and 
then adjust their data in the ticket that it will update the CTM:People record 
for that person?  I didn't think it was possible in ITSM 7.X but I know the 
previous ITSM versions had that functionality.



Thanks
Peter Lammey
ESPN MIT Technical Services & Applications Management
860-766-4761

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Sent: Thursday, May 22, 2008 6:36 PM
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Subject: Re: ITSM 7 Support Staff permissions

Initial presentation: one particular user's CTM:People showed a 'Last Modified 
By'-value of other than expected parties.  Further, the record and its 
corresponding user record lacked Application Permissions and Support Group 
associations I know I added the evening before (and then verified, by logging 
in as the user in question!).

Current symptom of the suspected behavior:  Out of 300-odd support staff 
currently configured on our system, 43 CTM:People-records carry a 'last 
modified by' value OTHER than: either sys admins, or user him/herself.
I have not positively verified that another user is changing data---but too 
many of us rely on 'last change'-type fields to verify a record's current 
status.
If values captured in 'CTM:People->More Details->Last Modified By' are 
accurate, we do indeed have another 'gremlin' in the works.  Further--one 
particular account shows 'last modified by' a support staffer who has no access 
to see that CTM:People record at all!

Note, though:  I have created a 'roaming staff' account, associated it with 
several companies/support groups, and not been able to actually deliberately 
modify any other personal profiles myself.  We suspect there is a 'back door'
through Incident Management workflow which is allowing unintended field-value 
modifications.

Don W. McClure, P.E.
Data Administrator & System Engineer
Computing & IT Center, Call Tracking Administration University of North Texas, 
Denton dwmac_at_unt.edu

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Sent: Tuesday, May 20, 2008 11:46 AM
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Subject: Re: ITSM 7 Support Staff permissions

I'm not sure yet how it was done, just that it was, and that the last modified 
user on the profile that was altered was another support user in the same 
company.

Christopher Strauss, Ph.D.
Call Tracking Administration Manager
University of North Texas Computing & IT Center http://itsm.unt.edu/

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList)
> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Lammey, Peter A.
> Sent: Tuesday, May 20, 2008 11:30 AM
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: Re: ITSM 7 Support Staff permissions
>
> How are you able to do this?  I tried this with a simple support staff
> user and tried to go into People and see if I was logged in as that
> support staff user with just Incident User and Asset viewer rights but
> I could not alter anything (permissions, group membership included)
for
> other people except for the person's own profile.
>
> ITSM 7.02 patch 005
>
>
> Thanks
> Peter Lammey
> ESPN MIT Technical Services & Applications Management
> 860-766-4761
>
> -----Original Message-----
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> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of strauss
> Sent: Tuesday, May 20, 2008 12:09 PM
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: ITSM 7 Support Staff permissions
>
> Has anyone run into an issue with ITSM 7 where it is entirely possible
> for a support staff user (Incident User, Asset Viewer, no Roles at
all,
> just company and group membership) in a company to remove all of the
> application permissions for another Incident user in the same group?
> One of the departments has already experienced this.  Remember how in
> ITSM 5.x and 6.x there were many different filters trapping who could
> update what fields in the SHR:People and User forms?  I guess they
left
> all of those out in ITSM 7.  We had thought that the Contact People
> permission controlled this, but apparently not since our admin
accounts
> are the only ones that have those.
>
> Has anyone dug into this enough to explain it?  As usual, the BMC docs
> on permissions and roles are not much help.
>
> Christopher Strauss, Ph.D.
> Call Tracking Administration Manager
> University of North Texas Computing & IT Center
>
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