Re: Owning USRPRF of an IFS object?

[Simon Coulter <shc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 20/12/2006, at 6:32 AM, James H H Lampert wrote:

> I looked at getpwuid myself. According to the V4R2 and
> V4R4 Softcopy manuals,
> > READ authority is required to the user profile associated
> > with the uid.
>
> But in the V5 Disinformation Center, it says
>
> > *READ authority is required to the user profile associated
> > with the UID. If the user does not have *READ authority,
> > only the user name, user ID, and group ID values are
> > returned. Note: Adopted authority is not used.
>
> Does anybody know if the latter behavior was always that
> way, or if it was new in V5?

It appears the documentation was corrected in VRM450 but the API has 
always worked the way it is currently described. I did a quick test 
against a VRM440 system I have here and it worked fine to retrieve the 
name of a UID to which *PUBLIC has *EXCLUDE authority and the profile 
under which I ran the test had no specific authority to the UID 
profile.

Regards,
Simon Coulter.
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