Rob,
The Linux UID works much the same as the IBM i one does. You can set it as
needed (assuming no duplicates of course) and the GID work about the same as
the IBM i groups and GID on the user profile.
I know you can set UID on Winders, but I don't have a clue how to. Never
had reason to do so.
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Jim Oberholtzer
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From: MIDRANGE-L [mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Rob
Berendt
Sent: Tuesday, October 31, 2017 7:41 AM
To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion
Subject: Changing everyone's UID Was: NFS security
Due to NFS security concerns I am thinking of changing everyone's UID on
every system to match their employee number. This sure beats opening up our
/Banking subdirectory to QNFSANON so every Tom, Dick and Harry can MOUNT
over that EXPORTFS.
Anyone see a concern with this?
From my reading I see that the user cannot be active in any process.
And if we have any temporary employee numbers we often use an alpha
character which we'll have to use a number instead.
https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/en/ssw_ibm_i_73/apis/QSYCHGID.ht
m
Also, not that this affects my current project but is there some way to set
a Windows user UID? Linux?
Rob Berendt
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From: Rob Berendt <rob@xxxxxxxxx>
To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion <midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: 10/31/2017 08:27 AM
Subject: Re: NFS security
Sent by: "MIDRANGE-L" <midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Thank you. That's exactly what I am looking for.
Now comes the next project: Changing everyone's "User ID number" UID.
Stay tuned for follow up thread...
Rob Berendt
midrange.com
