[Info-vax] Change UIC of DEFAULT

[jbriggs444]

On May 6, 8:38 pm, Mac Decman <dearman.m... at gmail.com> wrote:
> Is it possible to change the UIC of the DEFAULT user from [200,200] to
> something else?  Does AUTHORIZE look for this UIC to get values from
> or does it reference it by name?

The AUTHORIZE utility references the DEFAULT user by name.

[Referencing it by UIC code would be silly since it is entirely
possible
to have two or three or dozens of users in SYSUAF.DAT all sharing
the same UIC].

> The only reason I am asking is for congruency between accounting
> records stored in the LDAP directory.  All of the UIDs in the directoy
> happen to fall in the 200 range.  Where 200 is the Domain Users group.

What accounting records?  What LDAP directory?

My reading of this is that all of the users on your system have
been created in the same UIC group.  So their accounting records
in ACCOUNTNG.DAT all show the records under that single UIC
group.

Changing the UIC on the DEFAULT account will not have any
useful effect.  What may have a useful effect is updating the
acounts for users on your system so that they have distinct UIC
groups.  Unfortunately, this will likely have the side-effect that
none
of your users will be able to access any of their files.  So you will
want to change the ownership of their files to match.

This process will have the side-effect that the modification date
on all of your files will change.  This may in turn have an impact
on an incremental backup scheme if you run one.