Re: Securing pgm folder on IFS

[Jerry Draper <midrangel@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Confirming that I mean CL and not db2.

My shorthand way of referring to the "two heads" of the IBM I is: db2 
for the core IBM I world and *IX for the IFS world.

J

On 10/23/2023 12:08 PM, Scott Klement wrote:
> Hi Jerry,
>
> On Unix systems, group profile information is stored in the /etc/group 
> file.  Assuming the chgrp command you are using was brought over from 
> a Linux/Unix system, then it may simply have a misleading message.  It 
> may be doing the right thing -- just the human-readable message was 
> written for Unix.  (This is a guess...)
>
> On IBM i, group profiles are stored in *USRPRF objects.
>
> Please check that testapps was created properly.  In order to be a 
> group profile (for IFS, anyway) it must have a Group ID Number (GID) 
> assigned to the user profile.  (The WRKUSRPRF/CHGUSRPRF commands can 
> be used to check/change this.)
>
> I don't understand why you refer to a 'db2 command'?  Do you mean a CL 
> command?  What does CHGPGP have to do with Db2?
>
> As far as I can tell, CHGPGP is the CL version of chgrp.  I can't say 
> that I've ever used CHGPGP.
>
>
> On 10/23/23 12:32 PM, Jerry Draper wrote:
> > Now we can't run chgrp on the *IX side and get this message:
> >
> > 0481-002 chgrp: testapps is not a recognized group.  Check the 
> > /etc/group file for all known groups.
> >
> > There is NO file /etc/group.
> >
> > We see there is a db2 cmd Change Primary Group (CHGPGP).