Security Management Guide (G06.29+, H06.08+, J06.03+)

Concerns for the User
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Group Membership
Given your administrative group number (147), you enter the USERS command and
n,255 to learn that user name SALES.PAT is your group manager (that is, member 255
of your administrative group):
3> USERS 147,255
GROUP . USER I.D. # SECURITY DEFAULT VOLUMEID
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SALES .PAT 147,255 NUNU $SALES.PAT
Group Membership
Every user always belongs to an administrative group. Users can also belong to
file-sharing groups.
Administrative groups exist primarily to define and manage the user authentication
records for users on your system. An administrative group must have a group number
from 0 through 255. You are always a member of only one administrative group. Your
user name and user ID are based on the name and number of your administrative
group.
File-sharing groups provide a mechanism for allowing arbitrary sets of users to share
files, particularly in the OSS environment. In addition to your administrative group, you
can be a member of up 31 other groups for file-sharing purposes.
Administrative Groups
An administrative group consists of all users whose user names have the same group
name and whose user IDs have the corresponding group number. In the preceding
examples, ROBIN and PAT share the group name SALES and its group number 147.
Thus they are members of the same administrative group.
To list all users who have the same administrative group, enter a USERS command in
one of these forms:
USERS group-name.*
or
USERS group-number,*
For example, the following USERS command uses the group-name to list all users
whose administrative group is the SALES group. The user names appear in
alphabetical order:
4> USERS SALES.*
GROUP . USER I.D. # SECURITY DEFAULT VOLUMEID
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SALES .ALICE 147,062 GGGG $PERSNL.ALICE
SALES .ALTHEA 147,039 NUNU $PERSNL.ALTHEA
SALES .AUDREY 147,011 AGGO $BRIDGE.RAM
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