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MISC9 Authorities

The final category of miscellaneous authorities, MISC9, deals with higher level administrative authority and employs the following operands:

BYPASS

Allows the designated Security Administrator to assign any of the various security-bypass attributes. These are also called no-check attributes and are discussed in the “Securing Resources” chapter.

CONSOLE

Allows the designated Security Administrator to assign the CONSOLE attribute to any ACID within his scope

GENERIC

Allows the designated Security Administrator to issue generic WHOOWNS inquiries to obtain a list of all resources owned within his scope

TRACE

Allows the designated administrator to ADD/REMOVE the TRACE attribute

MODE

Allows the designated administrator to specify security modes for users

GLOBAL

Allows the designated administrator to PERMIT/REVOKE access to the ALL Record

ALL

Allows the designated administrator to perform all of the MISC9 type functions