Safeguard Reference Manual (G06.24+, H06.03+ )

OBJECTTYPE Security Commands
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FREEZE OBJECTTYPE Command
objecttype-spec
can be any object class name, including OBJECTTYPE:
DEVICE
DISKFILE
DISKFILE-PATTERN
OBJECTTYPE
PROCESS
SUBDEVICE
SUBPROCESS
SUBVOLUME
USER
VOLUME
Example
As owner of the object class DEVICE, you can enter the command to delete the
Safeguard authorization record for OBJECTTYPE DEVICE:
=DELETE OBJECTTYPE device
FREEZE OBJECTTYPE Command
FREEZE OBJECTTYPE temporarily suspends the authorities granted to user IDs listed
on an object-class ACL. While the object class is frozen, only the primary owner, the
owner’s group manager, an owner on the ACL, and the local super ID can create
authorization records for that type of object.
Use the THAW OBJECTTYPE command to reenable all the ACL authorities granted to
user IDs before the object class was frozen.
objecttype-list
specifies the object class for which access is to be frozen. objecttype-list can
be either:
objecttype-spec
( objecttype-spec [ , objecttype-spec ] ... )
objecttype-spec
can be any object-class name, including OBJECTTYPE:
DEVICE
DISKFILE
DISKFILE-PATTERN
OBJECTTYPE
PROCESS
SUBDEVICE
SUBPROCESS
FREEZE OBJECTTYPE objecttype-list