Re: Securing pgm folder on IFS

[Scott Klement <midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Jerry,

On Unix systems, group profile information is stored in the /etc/group 
file.  Assuming the chgrp command you are using was brought over from a 
Linux/Unix system, then it may simply have a misleading message.  It may 
be doing the right thing -- just the human-readable message was written 
for Unix.  (This is a guess...)

On IBM i, group profiles are stored in *USRPRF objects.

Please check that testapps was created properly.  In order to be a group 
profile (for IFS, anyway) it must have a Group ID Number (GID) assigned 
to the user profile.  (The WRKUSRPRF/CHGUSRPRF commands can be used to 
check/change this.)

I don't understand why you refer to a 'db2 command'?  Do you mean a CL 
command?  What does CHGPGP have to do with Db2?

As far as I can tell, CHGPGP is the CL version of chgrp.  I can't say 
that I've ever used CHGPGP.


On 10/23/23 12:32 PM, Jerry Draper wrote:
> Now we can't run chgrp on the *IX side and get this message:
>
> 0481-002 chgrp: testapps is not a recognized group.  Check the 
> /etc/group file for all known groups.
>
> There is NO file /etc/group.
>
> We see there is a db2 cmd Change Primary Group (CHGPGP).