The filesystem has the uid, not the userid.

If you have multiple userids using uid(0), then when it maps the uid to a
userid it just picks one :-)

Kirk Wolf
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On Mon, Nov 26, 2012 at 10:48 AM, Donald J. <[email protected]> wrote:

> No, that's doesn't do it.
> We have:
>  BROWSE    SYS1.SY1.PARMLIB(BPXPRM00) - 01 Line 00000180 Col 001 080
>  Command ===>                                                  Scroll
>  ===> CSR
>    SUPERUSER(BPXROOT)
>
>  ---> su -
> /home/root ===> env
> ...
> LOGNAME=OMVS
>
> /home/root ===> ll /bin/z*
> -rwxr-xr-x   3 OMVS     1         188416 Nov 12  2009 /bin/zcat  --
>
> > BTW, why would whomever defines userids define one with an OMVS
> > segment that doesn't contain a home DIR?
> I guess because DB2 security manual doesn't specity to do it that way.
>
>
>  > AFAIK the one that gets used is the userid defined in BPXPRMxx
> >
> > SUPERUSER(userid)
> >
> > In my case it is BPXROOT.   I've never tried changing it to another
> > UID(0) userid, nor would I ever attempt to.
> >
> > BTW, why would whomever defines userids define one with an OMVS
> > segment that doesn't contain a home DIR?
> >
> > Regards,
> >
> > Mark
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