Re: IFS directory name ending with period

What I see a lot is users with HOMEDIR('/home/my-user-id') and then the /home/my-user-id directory doesn't exist, so the CWD defaults to / instead of /home/my-user-id.

This is lazy, but isn't so bad. When you do need to have a true home directory, you can create one and no harm is done.

You seem to be telling me that you see a lot of shops where the users have HOMEDIR('/'). That is very bad, because software expects the home dir to be set to a location that's specific to that user. Unix, PASE, Java, and PHP software will often use that directory to store per-user settings. If you specify the system's root directory, all users would share common settings, and that could cause the software to go haywire. Worse, you have to give all users write access to the root directory of the IFS, which is a bad idea, security-wise.

Why not just hit your system with a sledgehammer? It's likely to do less damage.


On 4/21/2011 2:15 PM, Jack Kingsley wrote:

I see it allot.

On Thu, Apr 21, 2011 at 3:01 PM, Scott Klement
<midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>wrote:

As an aside... Nobody should ever have their home directory set to / --
good grief, have IBM i system admins gotten THAT bad?

But, no, home directory shouldn't make any difference in this case, as
it's not referenced in the CPYTOSTMF command...


On 4/21/2011 12:26 PM, Jack Kingsley wrote:

Would it matter if the profile your doing this against has it's profile

set

against something other than / (home directory).

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