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Status Submitted
Workspace Sterling Connect:Direct
Categories Administration & Configuration
Created by Guest
Created on Apr 28, 2025

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Setting local permission controls in userfile.cfg for landed files

Connect:Direct (aka NDM) provides great power over sending files to report systems, allowing the potential for running jobs or tasks on a remote system. But receiving system lacks some simple security controls within the usefile.cfg over files landed on a system. Right now, the receiving server can only set the ID of the landed file, and restrict the location the file can land in. I propose adding two (2) more pstmt controls in the userfile.cfg specification for a user@server: pstmt.mode= and pstmt.group= . On Linux/Unix, an ID has a primary group and secondary groups. Secondary groups are used to allow specific groups of users/IDs to have access to appropriate sets of files, like setting entitlements. But the actual group assigned to the file has to match. When creating a file, the assigned group is the primary group of the ID, which may be and should generally be very restrictive. Changing the group to a controlled common secondary group and then being able set the mode of the file to 640 maintains security restrictions for access while keeping the same owner ID for the file.

What is your industry? Banking
How will this idea be used?

This will allow for a local NDM node to better control landed file access and permissions, improving security.

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