{"id":13869,"date":"2018-11-20T04:30:17","date_gmt":"2018-11-20T12:30:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.palada.net\/index.php\/2018\/11\/20\/news-7636\/"},"modified":"2018-11-20T04:30:17","modified_gmt":"2018-11-20T12:30:17","slug":"news-7636","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.palada.net\/index.php\/2018\/11\/20\/news-7636\/","title":{"rendered":"The big fix"},"content":{"rendered":"

Credit to Author: Sharky| Date: Tue, 20 Nov 2018 03:00:00 -0800<\/strong><\/p>\n

Pilot fish at a federal agency gets a visit from a power user who can’t get access to the data he needs — and he’s not at all happy.<\/p>\n

“We used a very effective security product that could narrow down access to a specific user or dataset,” says fish. “But you had to be careful to install any new rules in the right place, because once a rule was found it was applied, even if one with more relaxed access followed.<\/p>\n

“As soon as I checked, I could see that I had misplaced the rule I had created for him.<\/p>\n

“Now, normally if I made a mistake I’d admit to it and apologize. This particular day this fellow, an otherwise nice guy, was at it like a dog with a bone, demanding How did it happen? Who did this?<\/i> over and over.<\/p>\n

“For whatever reason, that rubbed me the wrong way. So I said, ‘Let’s fix the problem now, we can fix the blame later.’<\/p>\n

“That got him all self-righteous and indignant, but it distracted him enough to drop the subject and let me correct the problem.<\/p>\n

“A week later, I set up a security ID with limited security authority, so he could manage his own datasets without having to consult me. He was happy, and I had no further problems with him after that.”<\/p>\n

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Credit to Author: Sharky| Date: Tue, 20 Nov 2018 03:00:00 -0800<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Pilot fish at a federal agency gets a visit from a power user who can’t get access to the data he needs — and he’s not at all happy.<\/p>\n

“We used a very effective security product that could narrow down access to a specific user or dataset,” says fish. “But you had to be careful to install any new rules in the right place, because once a rule was found it was applied, even if one with more relaxed access followed.<\/p>\n

“As soon as I checked, I could see that I had misplaced the rule I had created for him.<\/p>\n

“Now, normally if I made a mistake I’d admit to it and apologize. This particular day this fellow, an otherwise nice guy, was at it like a dog with a bone, demanding How did it happen? Who did this?<\/i> over and over.<\/p>\n

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