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Subject: Re: System UICs
Date: Fri, 7 Jun 2024 08:04:49 -0400
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On 6/7/2024 7:04 AM, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:
> On Fri, 7 Jun 2024 11:20:34 +0200, Hans Bachner wrote:
>> SYSGEN> help sys_para maxsysgroup
>>
>> Sys_Parameters
>>
>>     MAXSYSGROUP
>>
>>          MAXSYSGROUP sets the highest value that a group number can have
>>          and still be classified as a system UIC group number.
> 
> Did anybody ever assign UICs to users in the [2,*] ... [10,*] groups?

Hopefully not.

> It seems to me that having lots of users with system-level privileges was
> not a good idea back then, and is even less desirable nowadays.

As long as I can remember it has been considered best practice
to use personal accounts above that with SETPRV for priviliged
users.

I usually use groups 100, 101, ... and 200, 201, ..., but
probably no particular reason.

DECnet like 376 and TCP/IP like 3655.

Arne