Casey,
First of all, this discussion assumes that you're working with a
FILECONTROL directory (vs. a DIRCONTROL directory). See the
discussion under CREATE DIRectory command for the differences.
You need to look more carefully at the discussion of the GRANT
AUTHority command. There are separate authorities/permissions for
directories and files. For example, someone may have READ authority
on a (sub)directory, but WRITE authority on (some) files in the
directory. That could explain the behavior you're seeing. It all
depends on what's been granted. The QUERY AUTH command can give you
an idea of what authorities have been granted.
FWIW, even some veteran VMers get caught by this. It is by no
means a simplistic question or issue.
Marty
On Wed, Aug 18, 2010 at 2:33 PM, Casey Rhodes <[email protected]> wrote:
> New to Shared File Sytems, so up fromt please forgive me if this is way to
> simplistic for some of those here.
>
> I have enrolled a new user in the vmsys filepool called shared. And then
> created directories under the shared top directory. I then granted a user
> read access to these lower directories. When accessed by the user granted
> read access the AUTH PF6 key shows this user only has read capabilities,
> but user is still allowed to update the files.
>
> Dont know where to go from here. Sorry to bring the discussions down to
> basics but dont find the CMS File Pool Planning, Administration and
> Operations guide all that easy to use.
>
>
> Any direction here would be appreciated.
>
> Casey
>
