RE: Supplemental Groups

Ed.  Great comment.  I actually had IBM tell me the same thing on a tech
support call last year, and it worked.  I had been stumped up to that point
as I had removed all user id's associated with the group profile, but the
group profile was still a group!  When I changed the GID, presto!

Rochester Rules.

Thanks, Larry

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[mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Ed Fishel
Sent: Thursday, February 16, 2006 3:54 PM
To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion
Subject: Re: Supplemental Groups

Jan Megannon wrote on 02/16/2006 12:51:13 PM:

> Correct. Once a user profile has been used as a group or as a
> supplemental profile, it cannot then revert back to being a user
> profile. I cannot recall the reason for this, but do remember seeing it
> some years ago. Almost like my nuptial contract.

Actually it is no longer that hard to change a group profile back to a
normal user profile. There are two ways to cause a user profile to become a
group profile. The first is to just use it as a group profile or a
supplemental group profile. The second is to give it a unique Group ID
number (GID). So to change a group profile back into a normal user profile
all you need to do is change all its group members to not use it as their
group profile or supplemental group. Once that is done the final step is to
change its GID to *NONE.

Ed Fishel,
edfishel@xxxxxxxxxx