AIX Group ID's query

[John F Haugh II]

In article <RNETMAIL9103131612407SEB1525 at MVS.DRAPER.COM> seb1525 at mvs.draper.com ("Stephen E. Bacher") writes:
>We are trying to implement a networkwide standard for Un*x UID and GID
>numbers (mainly for NFS).  Since most users added on Suns (the bulk of
>our workstation population) have a group ID of 10 (staff), we think it
>would be reasonable to give our AIX users the same one.  Unfortunately
>the makers of AIX think that group 10 should be "audit".  My question:
>Just what effects exactly does the group classification have?  Who, if
>anyone, cares about what the groups "mean" on AIX?  Is it best to edit
>/etc/group to change the designations?  What, if anything, will break?

There are very few "reserved" GID values in AIX v3, and 10 isn't one
of them.

The GID for "audit" can be just about anything, within reason.  You
have to remember to search the filesystem for any files belonging to
group "audit" before you run off and change the GID in the /etc/group
file.  Nothing should "break" if you change the value and change the
file group IDs.  There is a "chgroup" command that will do this, and
there should even be a SMIT panel for this as well.  [ Neither change
the file GIDs, tho ]

I would suggest that you use SMIT as it "knows" about the various
/etc/security files that are affected.
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