UNIXPRIV class permits

The UNIXPRIV class holds profiles that allow a security administrator to selectively hand out special z/OS® UNIX related permits, instead of granting all z/OS UNIX related permits with the super user approach.

Table 1. UNIXPRIV z/OS UNIX related permits
Profile Permit Result
SUPERUSER.FILESYS READ User is allowed to read any file or directory.
SUPERUSER.FILESYS.ACLOVERRIDE READ Permit is only required if ACLOVERRIDE is already defined. It allows the user to read any file or directory, regardless of ACL definitions.
SUPERUSER.FILESYS.CHOWN READ User is allowed to change the owner of any file or directory.
SUPERUSER.FILESYS.CHANGEPERMS READ User is allowed to change the permission bits of any file or directory.
Note: When the SUPERUSER.FILESYS.ACLOVERRIDE profile is defined, access permissions defined in ACL (access Control List) take precedence over the permissions granted through SUPERUSER.FILESYS. The RSED started task user ID will need READ access permit to the SUPERUSER.FILESYS.ACLOVERRIDE profile to bypass ACL definitions.