Public authority
is authority that is available to any user who does not have specific authority
to the file or who is not a member of a group that has specific authority
to the file. That is, if the user has specific authority to a file or the
user is a member of a group with specific authority, then the public authority
is not checked when a user performs an operation to the file. Public authority
can be specified as:
- *LIBCRTAUT. All users that do not have specific user or group authority
to the file have authority determined by the library in which the file is
being created. The library value is specified by the *CRTAUT command to establish
a public authority for this library.
- *CHANGE. All users that do not have specific user or group authority
to the file have authority to use the file. The *CHANGE value is the default
public authority. *CHANGE grants any user object operational and all data
authorities.
- *USE. All users that do not have specific user or group authority to
the file have authority to use the file. *USE grants any user object operational,
execute, and read data authority.
- *EXCLUDE. Only the owner, security officer, users with specific authority,
or users who are members of a group with specific authority can change or
use the file.
- *ALL. All users that do not have specific user or group authority to the
file have all data authorities and all object authorities.
- Authorization list name. An authorization list is a list of users and
their authorities. The list allows users and their different authorities to
be grouped together.