Hi,

The way authorities are granted in DB2 are very vague.In one of our
production systems the users under staff group in AIX have sysmon
authorities and i have checked dbm cfg and there sysmon_group is empty.
So how every member of staff have sysmon authority.why so?

How can a user run "db2 list applications" and db2 "get snapshot ....."
with these authorities?


db2 get authorizations

Administrative Authorizations for Current User

Direct SYSADM authority = NO
Direct SYSCTRL authority = NO
Direct SYSMAINT authority = NO
Direct DBADM authority = NO
Direct CREATETAB authority = NO
Direct BINDADD authority = NO
Direct CONNECT authority = YES
Direct CREATE_NOT_FENC authority = NO
Direct IMPLICIT_SCHEMA authority = NO
Direct LOAD authority = NO
Direct QUIESCE_CONNECT authority = NO
Direct CREATE_EXTERNAL_ROUTINE authority = NO
Direct SYSMON authority = NO

Indirect SYSADM authority = NO
Indirect SYSCTRL authority = NO
Indirect SYSMAINT authority = NO
Indirect DBADM authority = NO
Indirect CREATETAB authority = NO
Indirect BINDADD authority = NO
Indirect CONNECT authority = NO
Indirect CREATE_NOT_FENC authority = NO
Indirect IMPLICIT_SCHEMA authority = NO
Indirect LOAD authority = NO
Indirect QUIESCE_CONNECT authority = NO
Indirect CREATE_EXTERNAL_ROUTINE authority = NO
Indirect SYSMON authority = NO