And what command is the non-admin user issuing to perform the delete?

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> Sent: Tuesday, October 01, 2019 5:37 AM
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> Subject: Re: Tracing RACF?
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> What is the status of the SETROPTS PROTECTALL option?
> 
> Is there any data set profile that covers the dataset?
> 
> Is there a global access checking table entry that covers the dataset?
> 
> Does the non-admin user have the OPERATIONS attribute?
> 
> Is there a DASDVOL profile that covers the non-SMS volume in question?
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> > Behalf Of Sean Gleann
> > Sent: Tuesday, October 01, 2019 3:10 AM
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> > Subject: Re: Tracing RACF?
> >
> > Joao: yes, I have tried that, but it really doesn't give the information
> > that I want - I can see the monitored user creating and deleting file, but
> > I don't see anything about the RACF profiles that were used.
> >
> > Having said that, I have managed to move things along.
> > The situation I now have is that an 'ordinary' user of my system(s) - as
> > opposed to an 'administrator' user (there are three of us at this site) -
> > cannot update the MCAT, so creating files that do not have the user's id as
> > the first qualifier is now impossible.
> > 'Administrators', on the other hand, can create and delete files at will.
> > All of which is OK as far as I'm concerned.
> >
> > But (there's always a 'but'...)
> > If an admin user creates a file named 'TEST' (for instance), the file is
> > not covered by my SMS rules, and so it gets placed on one of the 5
> > non-SMS-controlled disks that my PARMLIB(VATLSTxx) member identifies as
> > being mounted 'PRIVATE'. I'd rather that didn't happen, but we're talking
> > about an 'admin'-type user here, and they're supposed to know what they're
> > doing, so things are OK up to this point.
> > But now it appears that a non-admin user can delete the file, but not
> > uncatalog it. The file disappears from the selected disk's VTOC, but the
> > MCAT entry remains since the user is not allowed to update the MCAT. If
> > this is allowed to continue I'll end up with an MCAT full of orphan entries.
> >
> > As I say, I've managed to move things along a bit, so my original query
> > about 'Tracing RACF' is no longer an issue.
> > Right now, I'm trying to improve my system's security so that users can
> > create/delete their own files, but cannot do that to anyone else's, nor to
> > files that are not covered by SMS.
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