Is your e3000 Environment Secure? Homestead security

page 48April 24, 2003
Is Your Homestead Secure? - Solution Symposium West
Use OP on a temporary, process-local basis
• Use priv-mode AIFs to temporarily give the local process
OP capability so you don't have to give it to the user
permanently
• See the MPE/iX AIF:OS Reference Manual for details
– http://docs.hp.com/mpeix/onlinedocs/36374-
90013/36374-90013.html
AIFPROCGET(2119) /* obtain existing cap. mask */
set mask bit 21 for OP capability
AIFPROCPUT(2119) /* modify process cap. mask */
HPCICOMMAND("OP command string")
AIFPROCPUT(2119) /* restore original cap. mask */