Re: [U2] Software as Services

2005-05-26 Thread Clifton Oliver
Gee. If you are using Apple Mac OS X and Apple Mail, the link wasn't broken. It worked just fine. -- Regards, Clif On May 26, 2005, at 10:08 PM, Tony Gravagno wrote: Roger, subject is: "IBM To Help Vendors Transform Software Into Services For SMBs" I should have stated that up fron

RE: [U2] Uniobjects hack

2005-05-26 Thread David Jordan
You might want to look at the article in the U2UG newsletter on security. http://u2ug.org/docs/20040919_U2UG_Newsletter.pdf that deals with this issue. With Universe a program can have higher access rights than the user. If a user gets to tcl they may not have access rights to update, enquire or

Re: [U2] Uniobjects hack

2005-05-26 Thread John Kent
Steve, thanks for that jak - Original Message - From: "Steve Johnson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: ; "U2UG" Sent: Friday, May 27, 2005 2:46 PM Subject: Re: [U2] Uniobjects hack How about running a "monitor" program constantly in the background. It monitors all new logins to U2. The ne

Re: [U2] Uniobjects hack

2005-05-26 Thread Steve Johnson
How about running a "monitor" program constantly in the background. It monitors all new logins to U2. The new login process must send a "sleeping pill" to the monitor within a short time after login -- "short" being relative to your system performance. If the monitor doesn't receive this "sleeping

RE: [U2] Software as Services

2005-05-26 Thread Tony Gravagno
Roger, subject is: "IBM To Help Vendors Transform Software Into Services For SMBs" I should have stated that up front, sorry for the blindfolded lead in. The long link was broken by email word wrapping. Paste the following two lines into your browser to build one URL, then click Go. http://www.c

RE: [U2] Software as Services

2005-05-26 Thread Kevin King
It's there, the link is broken in the email. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Roger Glenfield Sent: Thursday, May 26, 2005 9:35 PM To: u2-users@listserver.u2ug.org Subject: Re: [U2] Software as Services Tony That page is no longer availabl

Re: [U2] Help with BREAK-ON & TOTAL

2005-05-26 Thread Mark Johnson
With apologies to Robin Williams? - Original Message - From: "Larry Hiscock" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Thursday, May 26, 2005 4:43 PM Subject: RE: [U2] Help with BREAK-ON & TOTAL > REALITY is for people who can't handle drugs. ;-) > > --Larry > > Larry Hiscock > Western Computer

Re: [U2] Software as Services

2005-05-26 Thread Roger Glenfield
Tony That page is no longer available. What was the subject??? Thanks Roger Tony Gravagno wrote: U2 VARs should take note and maybe contact your IBM rep to see if this good news applies to you: http://www.crn.com/sections/breakingnews/breakingnews.jhtml?articleId=16370 1126 --- u2-user

[U2] Software as Services

2005-05-26 Thread Tony Gravagno
U2 VARs should take note and maybe contact your IBM rep to see if this good news applies to you: http://www.crn.com/sections/breakingnews/breakingnews.jhtml?articleId=16370 1126 Tony Gravagno Author: "Web Services and .NET" series of articles, Spectrum Magazine. To read the articles: http: // rem

RE: [U2] Uniobjects hack {Unclassified}

2005-05-26 Thread HENDERSON MIKE, MR
> -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Tony Gravagno > Sent: Friday, 27 May 2005 12:15 > To: u2-users@listserver.u2ug.org > Subject: RE: [U2] UniObjects hack [snip] > Gerry wrote: > > If you're not worried about every shmoe with a passwo

RE: [U2] Uniobjects hack

2005-05-26 Thread Tony Gravagno
To answer both questions about unauthorized client access and then about encryption: Brian wrote: >The only way is to add a new security layer to the >server. I think the way to do this on the client side (wherever the UO DLL is kept and a connection initiated) is to have a separate DLL which ful

Re: [U2] Uniobjects hack

2005-05-26 Thread fft2001
The point isn't whether you can "get in". The point is what you can do once you "get in". Some connectivity tools only allow you to execute a routine that already exists as a catalog entry in the U2 environment, and merely scraps the data sent back. Those seem fairly inocuous. However I agree

RE: [U2] udtconfig gurus - AIX shm tuning

2005-05-26 Thread Wally Terhune
AIX doc hasn't been updated (though it is overdue...) If you read it, don't use AIX extended shared memory - performance issues with how UniData uses shared memory and how extended shared memory is implemented by AIX. We do have a 64-bit port of UniData for AIX (UniData 6.1.7)- which makes all of

Re: [U2] U2 XML./DB Tool

2005-05-26 Thread Bruce Nichol
Goo'day, Phil, At 09:54 27/05/05 +1200, you wrote: Hi, I have just tried using the U2 XML/DB Tool on an existing account and it does not work. After looking at other accounts on which it did work, I started to suspect it is because the account is pick flavour. so I created a dummy account a

RE: [U2] U2 XML./DB Tool

2005-05-26 Thread GarryS
Dick Pick was adamant about using the command line. Kinda the APPLE philsophy of "I did not invent it, so it does not exist." No PC access or newfangled tools for PICK. Maybe this is a licensee issue with Pick. > -Original Message- > From: Phil Walker [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent:

[U2] Re: UV PE for Windows

2005-05-26 Thread mkmullane
Thanks Eugene, UVAdmin is in the latests version of UVClients. I downloaded & installed it. MARY MULLANE --- u2-users mailing list u2-users@listserver.u2ug.org To unsubscribe please visit http://listserver.u2ug.org/

Re: [U2] UniBasic Line Continuation

2005-05-26 Thread Ray Wurlod
There was a proposal before 10.0 came out to use a terminating underscore character in UniVerse BASIC (just like in the command and paragraph parsers) to represent "line continues". It would appear that nothing came of it. --- u2-users mailing list u2-users@listserver.u2ug.org To unsubscribe

RE: [U2] udtconfig gurus?

2005-05-26 Thread Ken Wallis
Robert Paterson wrote: > Have to say that the best source of that information in my view is the > UniData manuals. >earlier Jeff Schoby wrote: > >> Does anyone have a good detailed reference for the settings in the >> udtconfig file and the formulas used to set each parameter. >> Or at least som

[U2] U2 XML./DB Tool

2005-05-26 Thread Phil Walker
Hi, I have just tried using the U2 XML/DB Tool on an existing account and it does not work. After looking at other accounts on which it did work, I started to suspect it is because the account is pick flavour. so I created a dummy account as (newacc) ideal flavour and the tool connects and appe

RE: [U2] [UV] HASH.HELP

2005-05-26 Thread Jeff Fitzgerald
My first guesses would be that either the file is corrupt or that it was being resized and the resize was aborted. I'd suggest running uvfixfile against the file (or FAST if you are using it.) HTH Jeff Fitzgerald Fitzgerald & Long, Inc. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailt

RE: [U2] Help with BREAK-ON & TOTAL

2005-05-26 Thread Paul Trebbien
Note, Reality still lives. I talked with them at the International Spectrum conference in March (2005) in San Diego, got a 3 user demo disk. They were about 20-30 feet from our booth. Have a Great Day! > Paul Trebbien > Kore Technologies, Senior Support Tech. > "Solutions that work. People who

Re: [U2] Uniobjects hack

2005-05-26 Thread Martin Phillips
> So how can it tell the difference between a legitimate connection from a > controlled application, and an illegitimate connection from e.g. a piece of > VBScript hacked into notepad? The easy answer is that it cannot. We had to think very hard about this when we designed the equivalent of Uniobj

RE: [U2] Help with BREAK-ON & TOTAL (Gonski - Out of Office)

2005-05-26 Thread Debra Gonski
The college is closed Friday 5/27/05 and Monday 5/30/05. If this is an urgent issue regarding Loyola's computer systems, please contact Public Safety at 410-617-5010 and report the issue. They will contact the appropriate personneel with Technlogy Services. If it is not an urgent issue, I wi

RE: [U2] Help with BREAK-ON & TOTAL

2005-05-26 Thread Larry Hiscock
REALITY is for people who can't handle drugs. ;-) --Larry Larry Hiscock Western Computer Services -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Kevin King Sent: Thursday, May 26, 2005 1:09 PM To: u2-users@listserver.u2ug.org Subject: RE: [U2] Help w

RE: [U2] Help with BREAK-ON & TOTAL

2005-05-26 Thread Paul Trebbien
Peter, I generally work with DataFlo systems (ERP system by DataWorks/Epicor) and, in a nutshell, would tackle this by using a basic program to write the 'print lines' to a user-specific work file leaving out the 'grand total' and then using info/access to report on the data. I crea

RE: [U2] Uniobjects hack

2005-05-26 Thread Brian Leach
> Just because this is a wider problem doesn't mean that UO > shouldn't be called on it. So how would you go about it? UO is a tool for developers. As such, it's strength is that it is able to do anything a developer needs it to do. It is clean client/server middleware and so it can't launch a

RE: [U2] Help with BREAK-ON & TOTAL

2005-05-26 Thread Kevin King
I thought these systems had a GT-SUPP, but looking on UD6 I don't see it. Maybe that's a relic from my Reality days. Oh, Reality. How I long for a bit more Reality in my life... Or not. -Kevin [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.PrecisOnline.com -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [ma

RE: [U2] Help with BREAK-ON & TOTAL

2005-05-26 Thread Peter Gonzalez
Ed, I have been converting these PROCS to programs, but it's very time consuming. Plus there are other TOTAL columns that I need to see the grand total. I guess, I'm looking for a magic option in the TOTAL clause. Thanks. At 03:43 PM 5/26/2005 -0400, you wrote: you could use the GRAND-TOT

RE: [U2] Help with BREAK-ON & TOTAL

2005-05-26 Thread Pingilley, Ron
Peter, I didn't find any "grand total suppress" keywords available on our UniVerse system, UD may have one. But if all else fails, try GRAND.TOTAL "'P'" That will make the grand total blurb print on the next page to be thrown away. --Ron P. -Origin

RE: [U2] Help with BREAK-ON & TOTAL

2005-05-26 Thread Ed Clark
you could use the GRAND-TOTAL clause (in ECL-TYPE "P" only, according to the manual) to force that final total line onto a seperate page, i.e. SORT BY FCURR.CD BREAK-ON FCURR.CD TOTAL INV.AMT GRAND-TOTAL "'P'" and then throw the offending page away. sorry I can't think of any better alternative bes

RE: [U2] Uniobjects hack

2005-05-26 Thread gerry-u2ug
Just because this is a wider problem doesn't mean that UO shouldn't be called on it. Why security hasn't been an issue is beyond me - how many systems do you know of that allow a user to login and have free reign ? usually they are restricted to what they can access & do by a menuing system of

[U2] Help with BREAK-ON & TOTAL

2005-05-26 Thread Peter Gonzalez
Hello, I need a little help on a statement. I'm working with multiple currencies dollar amounts in the same file. I'm trying to do the following. SORT BY FCURR.CD BREAK-ON FCURR.CD TOTAL INV.AMT The problem, as you can imagine is that after all currencies are added and displayed, an addition

RE: [U2] Uniobjects hack

2005-05-26 Thread Tony Gravagno
Well, let's not put this all on UO. Almost all of the connectivity tools in our market were written without any thought of security. It's generally assumed that if you have a valid password to the system that you are authorized to use whatever means available to get in. What I don't like is that

RE: [U2] Creating AIX Users for UniVerse

2005-05-26 Thread Ed Clark
AIX has the concept of "roles". Give any user the role "ManageAllUsers" (you may also have to put them into the "security" group) and they will be allowed to run the chuser/mkuser/pwdadm programs. AIX also provides a subroutine putuserpw (and a matching getuserpw) that allows you to set passwords n

Re: [U2] Creating AIX Users for UniVerse

2005-05-26 Thread Peter Ivanick
Webmin (http://www.webmin.com) allows you to upload list of users with the various fields prepopulated, including passwords - supports AIX 4.2 , 4.3 , 5.0 , 5.1 , 5.2. If you don't want to use Webmin, it's all perl scripts & you can figure out the parts you want from the modules that are alread

[U2] [UV] HASH.HELP

2005-05-26 Thread iggchamp
Hi all, UV9.6 HPUX11 Anyone seen this before? Program "/dbms/uv/uv/bin/hash.help" terminated. [SIGSEGV] segmentation violation What does it mean? The file that I was using HASH.HELP was not enormous. Number of records = 3800854 Number of physical bytes=

Re: [U2] Uniobjects hack

2005-05-26 Thread Martin Phillips
This is a hole in the Uniobjects security. A user who has a valid username and password to access a Uniobjects application can write his own VB program to do almost anything; modify files, write VOC entries, upload, compile and run programs. Using o/s security is fine but the user will have unrest

[U2] Creating AIX Users for UniVerse

2005-05-26 Thread Dave Schexnayder
Hi Gals and Guys, We would like to release a administrative tool for our UniVerse/AIX (and SCO) users which would allow them to create users on Unix and set their passwords. Many of our users do not have IT staff and only do system management in Unix when they have to. In reviewing the AIX docum

RE: [U2] Uniobjects hack

2005-05-26 Thread David Wolverton
Doesn't UniObjects have to go through a 'login in' of types identifying the user, even though it is not executing the LOGIN paragraph? And if so, can you use the underlying OS to make files 'safe' from those users, restricting even read-access? -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [m

Re: [U2] Uniobjects hack

2005-05-26 Thread Don Kibbey
Twiddle the PAM config file if your on unix so that services don't go through the user login process. Send them off to something else... I don't know of anyway to keep them out of a Windows system though. --- u2-users mailing list u2-users@listserver.u2ug.org To unsubscribe please visit http:

RE: [U2] Uniobjects hack

2005-05-26 Thread colin.alfke
The most secure way would be to turn off the service. :) Of course, there are a couple of different ways a determined, advanced user could do to get access. Colin Alfke Calgary, Canada >-Original Message- >From: John Kent > >Does anyone have any suggestions on how to contain an advance

RE: [U2] UniBasic Line Continuation

2005-05-26 Thread Dana Baron
>So, Dana, which one of us is going to forward this to the U2UG Product Enhancements Committee? Since it works just fine for me, I guess you'll have to forward it! Dana Baron System Manager Smugglers' Notch Resort -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Beh

RE: [U2] udtconfig gurus?

2005-05-26 Thread Robert Paterson
Have to say that the best source of that information in my view is the UniData manuals. Robert Paterson Technology Support Manager www.epicor.com Tel.: +44 (1344) 468231 Cell: +44 (7799) 348513 Fax: +44 (1344) 468050 E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 1 The Arena, Downshire Way, Bracknell, Berks, UK, RG12