Destype=file

I am able to run a *.rdf report on my 9.0.2 middle tier via rwservlet. I am able to specify destype=file and desname=/whatever/whatever and write anywhere with my report server owning/running account's permissions. This is sort of alarming --- what am I missing? I could find no discussion of this anywhere.

Hello Mike,
The issue that you are facing applies in general to any resource that your Reports Server's system account has access to. For example, the printers that a user running a report on your server can print on is determined by the permissions given to the server's account.
One way to solve this issue in general would be create a seperate user/user group with permissions to access/write to only specific resources (which includes directories, printers etc.) and run the Reports Server as this user.
Another possibility is to enforce a restriction on the DESNAME parameter in a suitable report trigger. Here, you can look at the :DESNAME system parameter entered by the user and continue/abort the report generation based on its runtime value after printing an appropriate error message.
Thanks,
The Oracle Reports Team.

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