I'm at a loss and would appreciate any suggestions on how to fix this.

I have a field on a form that has no privileges configured on it, so no one
but full admins should see it.  But for some reason an underprivileged user
account can see this field on the mid-tier running on the same machine,
call it machine QA.  I have the same form on a server & mid-tier running on
machine DEV, and the field is appropriately invisible to the (effectively)
same user account.

If I point DEV's mid-tier at server QA, the field is appropriately
invisible.

If I point QA's mid-tier at server DEV, the field is appropriately
invisible.

I've tried the above on different browsers running on different machines
with the same results.

So, it seems that the problem manifests ONLY when QA's mid-tier is pointing
at QA's server.

I've (of course) tried flushing the cache on QA's mid-tier, bouncing QA's
Tomcat, and even bouncing machine QA itself, but the problem persists.  And
during the these bounces, I've turned off QA's cache persistence but no joy.

The field (in this case) is a display field, so this is NOT an issue about
seeing or modifying data without appropriate privileges.  So I have no
reason to suspect a problem with ARS itself not enforcing permission
policies, and in fact the evidence (outlined above) would seem to suggest
something wrong with QA's mid-tier.  But it IS an issue (to me) that the
field is visible.

I've simplified my description here a bit and the problem does extend
beyond what I've described here.  But my guess is that if I can solve this
problem the other similar elements will resolve too.  Still, if appears
relevant I can describe more details.

All of the servers and mid-tiers are running v8.1.01

Has anyone seen this before?  Any suggestions on how to fix this?  I
haven't gone as far as uninstalling/reinstalling the mid-tier or tomcat
yet, do anyone think this will help?

Thanks,
Charlie

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