If you use RACF - permitting user's to the VSWITCH only needs to be done once. :-) Say goodbye to GRANT.
Scott Rohling On Tue, Dec 7, 2010 at 9:26 PM, Marcy Cortes <[email protected]>wrote: > What Kris said is right. > The 2nd time through you already have the access so it appears to work > After you IPL or destroy your vswitch, it wouldn’t work on the first login. > Drove me crazy. > Of course, I hate Grants ☺ > > > > Marcy > > This message may contain confidential and/or privileged information. If you > are not the addressee or authorized to receive this for the addressee, you > must not use, copy, disclose, or take any action based on this message or > any information herein. If you have received this message in error, please > advise the sender immediately by reply e-mail and delete this message. Thank > you for your cooperation. > > From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:[email protected]] On > Behalf Of Tom Huegel > Sent: Tuesday, December 07, 2010 8:24 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [IBMVM] Vswitch Grant as a CMD in User's Directory? > > What seems to be the problem Lee? I did the same thing and it worked just > fine. I don't believe the order really matters. I took it out of the > directory and put it in AUTOLOG1 because in my case the LINUX guest may be > logged on and off several times during a z/VM IPL. Although it worked fine > it produced an error message every time (other than the first) time the > guest logged on. I don't remember for sure, but I think I also defined the > NIC via the CMD statement. > Oh I just saw Kris's response.. I guess I did define the NIC via CMD.. > > I hope that helps. > > > On Tue, Dec 7, 2010 at 7:25 PM, Lee Stewart < > [email protected]> wrote: > It seems to me... > > Rather than putting a Vswitch Grant for each Linux guest somewhere like > AUTOLOG1's PROFILE EXEC, I thought I'd try putting a > CMD SET VSWITCH VSW1 GRANT &USERID > in the directory profile for the Linux guests... > > Alas, it seems that the GRANT isn't processed till after the NIC / LAN > connection is attempted. I thought I understood that CMDs in the directory > entry were processed before the user was logged on... > > Did I misunderstand or??? > > Thanks, > Lee > > -- > > Lee Stewart, Senior SE > Sirius Computer Solutions > Phone: (303) 996-7122 > Email: [email protected] > Web: www.siriuscom.com > >
