I missed that you had cross-posted to MVS-OE and IBM-Main. So here is what I posted to MVS-OE yesterday.
>But why EFFECTIVE UID is 0000999999 in the following messages ? >Who changed IBMSE41 from UID(0) to UID(999999)? IBMSE41 has not been changed. You previously showed the output from an 'ls' on /bin/fomtlinc: -rwsr-xr-x --s- 2 OEDFLT 1 344064 Nov 12 2009 /bin/fomtlinc Notice the setuid bit (the 's' in '-rwsr-xr-x'). This tells the kernel to run program /bin/fomtlinc in a process with the effective userid begin set to the owner of /bin/fomtlinc. The owner is, as the 'ls' shows, a user called OEDFLT. Display the attributes of OEDFTL and you'll find that this user has uid=999999. And this is also the reason for your session recoding problem. The permission setting on /etc/utmpx doesn't really matter, since /bin/fomtlinc is supposed to be run under uid=0, and an uid=0 process has any access to any file. You should find out why the files you showed, and probably some more, have had their ownership changed from uid=0 to that of your OEDFTL user (uid=999999). I'm pretty sure you will eventually run into other errors if this does not get fixed. -- Peter Hunkeler CREDIT SUISSE AG ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
