In all fairness you probably do not want general users to be able to GET the catalog, because the catalog usually contains file and path information that general users probably should not be able to see for security reasons.

Nathan

At 01:53 PM 3/9/2007 -0500, [log in to unmask] wrote:
>Yes, it does work as advertised. One problem is that index output can be
>very long for an old and busy list. I guess it might be nice to allow it
>for list members, if specifically enabled. Or maybe I'm missing something.
>
>On Thu, 8 Mar 2007, Nathan Brindle wrote:
>
>>General users I believe can only issue INDEX against a list catalog,
>>regardless of the GET FAC you have set.
>>
>>But you should be able to put comments in that file -- as shown in the
>>example in the manual, you preface them with asterisks:
> <snip>>
>
>>At 02:22 PM 3/8/2007 -0500, [log in to unmask] wrote:
>>>I have an entry in site.catalog as follows:
>>>
>>>AUTOCAT.CATALOG e:\autocat\autocat.catalog PRIVATE(AUTOCAT) OWNER(AUTOCAT)
>>>
>>>My understanding is that this should allow list members to retrieve the
>>>catalog entry (get autocat.catalog). Why do this? We have explanatory
>>>text in the file that people could find useful. However, we get the
>>>message
>>>  You are not authorized to access file "AUTOCAT CATALOG".
>>>In fact, we get the same message for a list that has "ALL' as the FACs.
>>>What am I misunderstanding? Does the access control affect the Index
>>>command, not the get .... catalog command? And, yes, owners appear to be
>>>able to retrieve xxxx.catalog files.
>
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