Re: How do I assign a read password to a disk

2015-04-06 Thread Michael MacIsaac
Cameron, You can put a LINK statement with RR access mode in a PROFILE for every virtual machine that needs access to that disk. See section 5.11 of The Virtualization Cookbook for IBM z/VM 6.3, RHEL 6.4, and SLES 11 SP3 on the Web at http://www.redbooks.ibm.com/abstracts/sg248147.html Hope

Re: How do I assign a read password to a disk

2015-04-06 Thread Rob van der Heij
Minidisk passwords are in the directory and can be set when you issue the amdisk or afterwards. If you have racf you use that. But you may want to rethink that approach from a security point of view. Are you talking about CMS or Linux? Have you considered NFS or SFS where people can publish what

Re: How do I assign a read password to a disk

2015-04-06 Thread Alan Altmark
On Monday, 04/06/2015 at 02:18 EDT, Rob van der Heij rvdh...@gmail.com wrote: Minidisk passwords are in the directory and can be set when you issue the amdisk or afterwards. If you have racf you use that. But you may want to rethink that approach from a security point of view. If the purpose

How do I assign a read password to a disk

2015-04-05 Thread Cameron Seay
I want to create a minidisk for my students to link to with read only access. I have formatted a disk for this and added it to an existing guest. When I try to link to it from another guest it says there is no read pw, but I didn't see how to establish one during formatting. What do I need to