> Från: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu] För Hal > Merritt > Skickat: den 20 oktober 2010 17:46 > Till: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu > Ämne: Assigning UID's > > Cross posted to MVS and RACF. > > We don't use OMVS and have no plans to do so except for the bare minimum > required. I did not choose to use the 'backstop' and so code a OMVS > segment on each user and group profile as appropriate. > > Somehow I have accumulated a number of (non human) profiles with UID 0 and > a number of duplicate UID and GID assignments (that is, the same GID > assigned to related groups and the same UID assigned to related ID's). I > got dinged n a recent audit and am working on my remediation strategy. > > I am of the 'old school' where 'any standard is better than no standard' > and would normally try to craft UID's and GID's in a pattern such as > xxyyyyyyyy where xx is a major grouping and yyyyyyy is a unique number. A > 'major grouping' could be employee, process, etc. > > Does this august group think it is worthwhile to go to the trouble of > doing this, or should I just assign random numbers? >
With doing so You are putting attribute like values on an identity key. I normally see such a thing bad, as this can be obsolete in the future because changes. But it may be a practical standoff in this case - but be aware of administration overhead... My 2 röda ören. :) Regards, Thomas Berg _________________________________________ Thomas Berg Specialist A M SWEDBANK ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
