Wolfgang,

Thank you for your response. I will ask our security group about the 'su'
command.


Thanks again, Dave H.






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Please respond to AW: [OS390
and MVS] USS and appropriate privileges
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Hello David,


well z/OS Unix is not other Unixes. IBM has put in great effords to avoid the
superuser privileges. For your specific question you might look at "su" command
which allows you to change the euid of your process to 0. This is controlled by
the RACF FACILITY class profile BPX.SUPERUSER. But there is more: with RACF
UNIXPRIV class you are able to give selective superuser priviliges to
individual
tasks. The best documentation about this can be found in IBM's "z/OS Unix
System
Services Planning" manual.

Cheers,
Wolfgang

--- David.L.Hansen@... <David.L.Hansen@...> schrieb
am
Fr, 12.9.2008:
Von: David.L.Hansen@... <David.L.Hansen@...>
Betreff: [OS390 and MVS] USS and appropriate privileges
An: os390andmvs@yahoogroups.com
Datum: Freitag, 12. September 2008, 19:54


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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