Safeguard Reference Manual (G06.24+, H06.03+ )
Security Group Commands
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Security Group Access Authorities
RELEASE
SELECT
FREEZE TERMINAL
THAW TERMINAL
The SECURITY-OSS-ADMINISTRATOR security group designates a list of users that 
are granted additional OSS security management privileges over normal users for the 
operations:
acl(ACL_SET)
chown(2)
chmod(2)
chdir(2)
opendir(3)
Membership in the SECURITY-OSS-ADMINISTRATOR security group are flagged in 
the user’s environment during initial logon.
Like the ADD OBJECTTYPE command, the ADD SECURITY-GROUP command can 
be used only by super-group members. Once an authorization record for a security 
group has been added to the Safeguard database, the record’s primary owner, the 
owner’s group manager, and any user with OWNER authority on the ACL can use 
other security group commands to manage the security group authorization record. 
Security Group Access Authorities
The ACL defined for a security group can grant either of these access authorities to 
users and user groups: 
Security Group Command Summary
Table 13-1 lists the SECURITY-GROUP commands and gives a brief description of 
each.
Note. Only the locally authenticated users who are part of the 
SECURITY-OSS-ADMINISTRATOR security group are granted the above specified privileges, 
not the remotely authenticated users.
EXECUTE Execute the set of commands restricted to the security group
OWNER Manage the security group authorization record










