What happens when you restore user profiles
When you restore a user profile, you restore all the attributes of the profile that you see on the Display User Profile display. The system builds a working table that holds that user's private authorities to objects.
You must use the Restore Authority (RSTAUT) command to restore the user's private authorities. If you specify SECDTA (*PVTAUT), then only the working tables that hold the user's private authorities are restored. The user profiles themselves are not restored.
Some values in a user profile might be changed when it is restored. Table 1 shows the actions the system takes when you restore user profiles:
| User profile attributes | Restore procedure used | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Restore *ALL user profiles | Restore individual user profile that already exists on system | Restore individual user profile that does not exist on system | |
| Group profile (GRPPRF) | Value is restored from media | Value on system is not changed 1 | Value is set to *NONE 1 |
| Owner (OWNER) of new objects | Value is restored from media | Value on system is not changed | Value is set to *USRPRF |
| Group authority (GRPAUT) to new objects | Value is restored from media | Value on system is not changed 1 | Value is set to *NONE 1 |
| Password | Value is restored from media | Value on system is not changed 1 | Value is set to *NONE 1 |
| Document Password | Value is restored from media | Value on system is not changed 1 | Value is set to *NONE 1 |
| Date password was last changed | Value is restored from media | Value on system is not changed 2 | The current date is used. |
| Owner of user profile | See How the system establishes ownership for restored objects. | Value on system is not changed | Value is restored from the media. If the owning profile does not exist, ownership is assigned to the QDFTOWN user profile. |
| Primary group of user profile | See How the system establishes the primary group for restored objects | Value on system is not changed. | Value is restored from the media. If the primary group does not exist, the value in the user profile is set to *NONE. |
| *ALLOBJ special authority | See What you should know about restoring user profiles. | See What you should know about restoring user profiles. | See What you should know about restoring user profiles. |
| User identification number (UID) | Results depend upon whether the user profile already exists on the system or not at the time it is restored. Actions are the same as for individual user profiles. | Value on system is not changed. | Value is restored from the media unless it is a duplicate of a UID on the system. In that case, a new UID is generated. |
| Group identification number (GID) | Results depend upon whether the user profile already exists on the system or not at the time it is restored. Actions are the same as for individual user profiles. | Value on system is not changed. | Value is restored from the media unless it is a duplicate of a GID on the system. In that case, a new GID is generated. |
| User expiration fields | See What you should know about restoring user profiles. | See What you should know about restoring user profiles. | See What you should know about restoring user profiles. |
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