[Info-vax] Caution: LTT ignores ALLOCATE

[Paul Sture]

In article <alpine.LFD.2.00.1110061426120.21944 at libra.gmcl.internal>,
 Rob Brown <mylastname at gmcl.com> wrote:

> On Thu, 6 Oct 2011 at 21:58 +0200, Johnny Billquist wrote:
> 
> > This has nothing to do with the LTT, and everything to do with who 
> > you are and what privileges you have.
> 
> I disagree.  Dale's demonstration clearly shows that when another user 
> has the device allocated, user SYSTEM (which, as you pointed out, is 
> fully privileged and can bypass the allocate status of a device if it 
> wants to) can *not* allocate or initialize the tape for himself.
> 
> If ALLOCATE and INITIALIZE respect a device allocated to another user 
> but LTT does not, I do not think that you can say that it has "nothing 
> to do with the LTT".


I agree.  MOUNT, BACKUP. COPY, DIRECTORY et el follow the same rules as 
ALLOCATE and INITIALIZE here.

-- 
Paul Sture