Each user defined to RACF® has a user profile and all user profiles have another RACF user or group as the owner. The owner (or a user who is connected to the owning group and has the group-SPECIAL attribute, or someone with SPECIAL) can change, list, and delete the user's profile and also has control over the user's attributes (including the ability to prevent the user from entering the system).

For a list of the RACF commands that owners of user profiles can issue, see Table 1.