Changing everyone's UID Was: NFS security -- MIDRANGE-L

Subject: Changing everyone's UID Was: NFS security
From: Rob Berendt <rob@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 31 Oct 2017 08:41:25 -0400
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Due to NFS security concerns I am thinking of changing everyone's UID on
every system to match their employee number. This sure beats opening up
our /Banking subdirectory to QNFSANON so every Tom, Dick and Harry can
MOUNT over that EXPORTFS.

Anyone see a concern with this?

From my reading I see that the user cannot be active in any process.

And if we have any temporary employee numbers we often use an alpha
character which we'll have to use a number instead.

https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/en/ssw_ibm_i_73/apis/QSYCHGID.htm

Also, not that this affects my current project but is there some way to
set a Windows user UID? Linux?

Rob Berendt

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Follow-Ups:

RE: Changing everyone's UID Was: NFS security , Jim Oberholtzer
RE: Changing everyone's UID Was: NFS security , Kevin Bucknum

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