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Unrestricted data access–security(none)

z/OS Network File System Guide and Reference
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If you do not want to restrict data access, you can use the security(none) attribute. Neither exports list checking nor SAF checking is done. Client users can access z/OS files without a z/OS user ID and without using the mvslogin command. They simply mount the z/OS file systems that they want to access and unmount when they are finished. For z/OS UNIX files, the UNIX permission bits are checked before access is granted to the client user. See Figure 1 and Table 1 for information on permission checking.
Note: If UID or GID from the RPC request is zero, it will be mapped to 65534 (nobody) before the UNIX permission checking is performed.
Figure 1. Permission checking for the security(none) attribute
Permission checking for the security(none) attribute

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