The UNIX installation procedure of a production version of PAS for OpenEdge sets user and file permissions to limit who can access, manage, and configure the server.

Immediately after installation, all permissions for the PAS for OpenEdge base configuration ($CATALINA_HOME, which is set to $DLC/servers/pasoe) is owned by ROOT and is only accessible and executable by ROOT users and groups. Subsequently, you can set up your own groups with user accounts that have permission to run the CATALINA_HOME files. When you create a new instance from CATALINA_HOME while logged in with one of these new user accounts, you have access to the files on the new instance.

On Windows, no user or group access control lists (ACLs) are set during installation. Manually set permissions on the %DLC%\servers\pasoe directories, sub-directories and files to prevent unrestricted access.