PowerHouse Web and POSIX security

[Deskin, Bob]

PowerHouse Web on MPE/iX is an interesting mix. The Dispatcher and PHCGI
programs are POSIX but the PowerHouse Web Server is MPE/iX. QUICK screens
(actually PH Web screens) are MPE/iX files. If the user and account from
which you run the Dispatcher (and therefore the PowerHouse Web Server) has
access to these files, there should not be a problem. This in itself has
nothing to do with POSIX. This would be the same as any user getting access
to files in another account. You'll have to open up your MPE security to
those files.

As for FTPing a file, it is not uncommon to have to change the permissions
once the file arrives. I'm not a POSIX expert, but it may depend whether the
file is pulled to the HP or pushed from the PC.

Bob Deskin              
PowerHouse Web Product Manager and Senior Product Advisor
Application Development Tools, Cognos Inc.
bob.deskin@cognos.com
(613) 738-1338 ext 4205  FAX: (613) 228-3149
3755 Riverside Drive P.O. Box 9707 Stn. T, Ottawa ON K1G 4K9 CANADA


-----Original Message-----
From: Barnes, Dennis [mailto:dennisb@wcjc.cc.tx.us]
Sent: June 13, 2000 12:51 PM
To: 'Powerhouse listserv messages'
Subject: PowerHouse Web and POSIX security


Hello all,

I am experimenting with PowerHouse Web 2.29D on MPE/iX and constantly have
to modify the security on files in the POSIX name space.  Every time I
compile a QUICK screen or FTP a file from my PC to the HP-3000, the file
security is such that the PowerHouse Web Dispatcher is denied access to the
file.  The Dispatcher is not running from the account where my application
resides.

Being brand new to the POSIX side of things, I don't know if this is
possible, but the question is:  Can I somehow avoid these constant security
problems with my POSIX files?

Thanks,
Dennis Barnes
Director of Computer Services
Wharton County Junior College
911 Boling Hwy.
Wharton, Tx 77488
(409) 532-6329 phone
(409) 532-6545 fax
dennisb@wcjc.cc.tx.us

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