NetNews Usenet Archive 1992 #20/NN_1992_20.iso/spool/comp/unix/aix/9491

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Path: sparky!uunet!cs.utexas.edu!torn!csd.unb.ca!dedourek
From: [e-mail] (John DeDourek)
Subject: Can group id's be assigned in AIX 3.2
Message-ID: <[e-mail]>
Organization: University of New Brunswick
Date: Wed, 9 Sep 1992 16:09:56 GMT
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Here is the situation.  The faculty has several independently administered
Unix machines and groups of Unix machines.  (A group of machines administered
by one administrator may be running NIS, aka. yp)

Occassionally, NFS mounts among the independently administered machines
is useful.  It is not desireable to run them all as a NIS domain.
Therefore, the faculty has implemented a set of standards for assignment
of user id numbers and group id numbers.

Assignment of user id numbers appears to be no problem under AIX 3.2; the
smit panel for adding users provides an entry for the id number and the
system appears to accept the administrators wishes.

The smit panel for creating a group does not provide an entry for
specifying a particular id number.  The smit panel appears to run
the mkgroup command; info explorer information does not indicate a
group id parameter.  The info explorer entry for chgroup, the command
for changing a groups attributes, lists id as an attribute.  To quote
"The ID of the group specified by the Group parameter.  This value should
not be changed.  The value is a unique decimal integer string."

Is it possible to specify the id number for a created group?  How?
Would the chgroup, in fact, set the id number of a group to a specific
value?  What are the implications of ignoring the "should not be changed"
warning for chgroup from info explorer?

John DeDourek
[e-mail]