From: Green, Simon (Simon.Green@EU.ALTRIA.COM)
Date: Fri Oct 31 2003 - 10:24:11 EST
You should not change the usr group ID.
imnadm you probably can change, provided you remember to change all of the
files as well. (Simple enough with the find command.)
Broadly speaking, any UID or GID below 128 is reserved. Anything above that
is for your use. If you change a GID that's already in use, there is some
risk of breaking the application. (I've actually come across one
application which appears to have a UID hard-coded in it, bizarre though
that seems!)
Simon Green
Altria ITSC Europe Ltd
AIX-L Archive at https://new-lists.princeton.edu/listserv/aix-l.html
AIX FAQ at http://www.faqs.org/faqs/aix-faq/
N.B. Unsolicited email from vendors will not be appreciated.
Please post all follow-ups to the list.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Randy Rodgers [mailto:randy.rodgers@CI.FT-WAYNE.IN.US]
> Sent: 31 October 2003 14:06
> To: aix-l@Princeton.EDU
> Subject: Can groups 100 & 200 be reassigned
>
>
> We are migrating an application to a newly installed AIX 4.3.3
> (the vendor isn't ready for AIX 5 yet). When setting up the
> groups we found that two GIDs that we had used for the
> application were already assigned.
>
> GID 100 is already assigned as group "usr", which is used by
> user "guest".
>
> GID 200 is already assigned as group "imnadm", which is used by
> user "imnadm".
>
> Does anyone know if it will cause a problem if I re-assign
> these groups to different GIDs so that I can use GID 100 & 200?
This archive was generated by hypermail 2.1.7 : Wed Apr 09 2008 - 22:17:19 EDT