I believe you can assign a user specific superuser functions using
RACF UNIXPRIV class.

Regards.

Marco

--- In os390andmvs@yahoogroups.com, David.L.Hansen@... wrote:
>
>
> Dear Group,
>
> We are running z/OS V1R8. In the *NIX world may things require
root access. The easy path was just make everybody a UID of 0. We
are trying not
> to do that with my userid.
> However without being a superuser all I see from my ps -ef is
this:
>
> SY4019:/SYSTEM/etc: >ps -ef
> UID PID PPID C STIME TTY TIME CMD
> SY4019 50331802 1 - 13:04:13 ? 0:03 OMVS
> SY4019 83886258 50331802 - 16:07:53 ttyp0000 0:03 -sh
> SY4019 67109053 83886258 - 17:42:48 ttyp0000 0:00 ps -ef
> SY4019:/SYSTEM/etc: >
>
> I read the System Services Command Reference about ps and it
says I will only see those processes "the user" has approriate
privileges to access.
> It goes on to say it will support a list of users with the -U
option. I did not see an /etc/shadow file on the system that would
have alist of all
> users. I typed in sudo, but got: "sudo: FSUM7351 not found".
>
> Q). What solutions have the rest of you come up with to use a non-
superuser ID in Openedition and still be able to get anything done?
>
>
> Thank you, Dave H.
>
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