Thankyou for your response Blaine.

However, this problem should not be happening in the first place. I would
like to find the root cause of what's going on with Netview.

Any ideas of what could be happening anyone ??

Sincerely,

Gord.

From: "Owens, Blaine C" <bowens AT EASTMAN DOT COM>
Reply-To: Discussion of IBM NetView and POLYCENTER Manager on NetView
       <NV-L AT UCSBVM.ucsb DOT edu>
To: NV-L AT UCSBVM.ucsb DOT edu
Subject: Re: Security Problem/Question...
Date: Wed, 23 Jun 1999 15:39:01 -0400

Are they using the "netview" command to launch?  You can have your opers
enter "netview -ro" and they should always get a read-only map (whether
they
are first or not). I set up our operators mouse buttons so they would
always
launch with the -ro option (via a script), that way I always get the read
write map (Greedy me :-))

Blaine Owens
Eastman Chemical Company
Phone - (423)-229-3579
Fax - (423)-229-1188
bowens AT eastman DOT com

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Gord Michaels [SMTP:gord_michaels AT HOTMAIL DOT COM]
> Sent: Wednesday, June 23, 1999 3:28 PM
> To:   NV-L AT UCSBVM.ucsb DOT edu
> Subject:      Security Problem/Question...
>
> Hello All.
>
> I am running Netview 5.1, AIX 4.2.1, Framework 3.6.
>
> In my environment, I use DCE. I have myself set up as a 'SrAdmin' user
> within Netview and my Operators under the 'oper' group.
>
> My Operators log into their AIX account and then Netview (oper group).
>
> Then, I log into my AIX account (not root, but I have given Map
ownership
> to
> my AIX userid) and then into Netview under SrAdmin.
>
> Now, after this, I have only read permissions and none of the privilages
> which come with SrAdmin (i.e. I cannot unmanage devices, change symbols
> names, etc). BUT, MY OPERATORS HAVE READ/WRITE PERMISSION AND HAVE ALL
THE
> SRADMIN PRIVILAGES !!!
>
> It seems as if whoever logs into Netview first, get read/write and full
> SrAdmin privilages. Whoever logs in after this, gets read only and oper
> permissions, regardless of what group they belong to. I have to test
this
> yet, but from memory, it seems to be what is happening. Regardless, then
> end
> result is not the way it should be.
>
> Has anyone ever seen this before ???
>
> Any help/advice appreciated.
>
> Gord Michaels.
>
>
>
>
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