SPD Server uses Access
Control Lists (ACLs) and SPD Server user IDs to secure domain resources.
You obtain your user ID and password from your SPD Server administrator.
SPD Server also supports
ACL groups, which are similar to UNIX groups. SPD Server administrators
can associate an SPD Server user as many as five ACL groups.
ACL file security is
turned on by default when an administrator brings up SPD Server. ACL
permissions affect all SPD Server resources, including domains, tables,
table columns, catalogs, catalog entries, and utility files. When
ACL file security is enabled, SPD Server only grants access rights
to the owner (creator) of an SPD Server resource. Resource owners
can use PROC SPDO to grant ACL permissions to a specific group (called
an ACL group) or to all SPD Server users.
The resource owner can
use the following properties to grant ACL permissions to all SPD Server
users:
universal READ access
to the resource (read or query).
universal WRITE access
to the resource (append to or update).
universal ALTER access
to the resource (add, rename, delete, or replace a resource and add,
delete indexes associated with a table).
The resource owner can
use the following properties to grant ACL permissions to a named ACL
group:
group READ access to
the resource (read or query).
group WRITE access
to the resource (append to or update).
group ALTER access
to the resource (rename, delete, or replace a resource and add, delete
indexes associated with a table).