z/OS Security Server RACF Security Administrator's Guide
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Defining group administrators, group auditors, and data managers

z/OS Security Server RACF Security Administrator's Guide
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For each group, define a group administrator with the group-SPECIAL attribute. Only the administrator for GROUP1 has the authority to define new users in that group. Each of the other administrators has authority over the resources owned by his or her group, as well as the resources owned by users who are owned by his or her group.
ADDUSER D01RHG DFLTGRP(GROUP1) CLAUTH(USER) DATA('GROUP1 ADM')
CONNECT D01RHG GROUP(GROUP1) AUTH(JOIN) SPECIAL

ADDUSER D02JMP DFLTGRP(GROUP2) DATA('GROUP2 ADM')
CONNECT D02JMP GROUP(GROUP2) AUTH(CREATE) SPECIAL

ADDUSER D03ABL DFLTGRP(GROUP3) DATA('GROUP3 ADM')
CONNECT D03ABL GROUP(GROUP3) AUTH(CREATE) SPECIAL
For groups GROUP1, GROUP2, and GROUP3, define a group-auditor. Connect the user to GROUP1 and give the user the group-AUDITOR attribute. Because GROUP2 and GROUP3 are owned by GROUP1, the user has auditor authority over the resources and users belonging to those groups, as well as to GROUP1. The user does not have auditor authority in any other group.
ADDUSER D01GPB DFLTGRP(GROUP1) DATA('AUDITOR G1 G2 G3')
CONNECT D01GPB GROUP(GROUP1) AUDITOR
The administrator for the data management group, the data manager, is able to define DASD volumes to RACF® in order to perform dump, restore, and data cleanup operations.
ADDUSER DMGJFS DFLTGRP(DATAMGT) AUTH(JOIN) CLAUTH(USER DASDVOL)
   DATA('DATA MGT ADM')
Because of his or her duties, the data manager is connected to SYS1, allowing the manager to access data sets with SYS1 in their access list and to define SYS1 data set profiles to RACF. The data manager has the group-SPECIAL attribute in group SYS1.
CONNECT DMGJFS GROUP(SYS1) AUTH(CREATE) UACC(READ) SPECIAL

At the end of the session, the defined group structure is:

Group Superior group Owner

Connected users
(group authority)

SYS1 RACFADM IBMUSER (JOIN) RACFADM (JOIN) RACFAD2 (JOIN) DMGJFS (CREATE)
GROUP1 SYS1 RACFADM

D01RHG (JOIN)
D01GPB (USE)

GROUP2 SYS1 GROUP1 D02JMP (CREATE)
GROUP3 SYS1 GROUP1 D03ABL (CREATE)
DATAMGT SYS1 RACFADM DMGJFS (JOIN)

The defined users are:

User

Default group
(group authority)

Attributes

Connected groups
(group authority)

IBMUSER SYS1 (JOIN) SPECIAL, OPERATIONS, REVOKE
RACFADM SYS1 (JOIN) SPECIAL, AUDITOR, OPERATIONS
RACFAD2 SYS1 (JOIN) SPECIAL, OPERATIONS
DMGJFS DATAMGT (JOIN), SYS1(CREATE) CLAUTH(USER DASDVOL), SPECIAL SYS1(CREATE)
D01RHG GROUP1 (JOIN) CLAUTH(USER), group-SPECIAL
D02JMP GROUP2 (USE) group-SPECIAL
D03ABL GROUP3 (CREATE) group-SPECIAL
D01GPB GROUP1 (CREATE) group-AUDITOR
D03DIK GROUP3 (CREATE)
AUDCCC SYS1 (USE) AUDITOR

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