CATEGORY: Secure Design
CLASS: Scripting
I have to admit, the first time I heard the term of Substantive Privileges, I was a bit bewildered as to its meaning. Looking at the dictionary meaning for substantive, one of the things we get is .... not imaginary; actual; real. So when is a privilege set a FileMaker user been assigned not the real one?
When a FileMaker user is running a script that has the “Run Script with Full Access Privileges” turned on, their substantive (or real) privilege set access restrictions are suspended during the execution of the script.
Another more obscure example can be when the Re-Login script step action is in play. In cases like this, you may temporarily assign a different user account and associated privilege set to user. However, the use of this is normally regulated to database testing, as a user wants to quickly test the security behaviors of an account without having to close the database and reopen it again. =============
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