Other user IDs requiring z/OS UNIX superuser authority
When a started procedure is used to start the following servers,
daemons, and agents, the user must be a superuser [UID(0)] or permitted
to BPX.SUPERUSER class profile.
- Network Print Facility (NPF) queue manager
- Sendmail Mail Transfer Agent (MTA)
- SNMP agent (OSNMPD)
The File Transfer Protocol (FTP) daemon requires UID(0). For more information, see Security for the FTP server.
The following daemons are managed by the inetd server, and the
user specified in file /etc/inetd.conf must be defined to RACF® with UID(0). For details on
inetd, see z/OS UNIX System Services Planning. For details on individual daemons, see z/OS Communications Server: IP Configuration Reference.
- z/OS® UNIX remote execution daemon (REXECD)
- z/OS UNIX remote shell daemon (RSHD)
- z/OS UNIX Telnet daemon