There is too much pussyfooting going on here. IBM clearly has knowledge of a security exposure that is SMP/E-linked. I have no notion what this linkage is, but what it is will emerge, and we may hope that IBM has eliminated it before then.
Absent this problem it would be entirely possible to use SMP/E to maintain an application or applications without providing their maintainers with concomitant access to the system libraries used to maintain the operating system itself. If, as I think it is, this is Paul Gilmartin's point, he is right. John Gilmore, Ashland, MA 01721 - USA ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
