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While we understand the intent to protect the file systems and the system in general, there may be legitimate reasons an administrator would want a read-write share to root.
We recommend setting permissions appropriately on your directories, and expect that RFE 107575 will be a much better solution overall.
I don't like this RFE, a share (masked and protected) of the IFS root can sometimes be very useful for administrators, mainly on smaller systems.
To provide an improved protection for shares is, at my opinion, a better solution.
Due to processing by IBM, this request was reassigned to have the following updated attributes:
Brand - Servers and Systems Software
Product family - Power Systems
Product - IBM i
Component - IFS (Integrated File System) and Servers
Operating system - IBM i
Source - None
For recording keeping, the previous attributes were:
Brand - Servers and Systems Software
Product family - Power Systems
Product - IBM i
Component - Networking
Operating system - IBM i
Source - None
I guess this is a personal decision (not a wise one), but I suggest to have a look at https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/rfe/execute?use_case=viewRfe&CR_ID=107575
This RFE would allow to limit which users can actually use a share (now everyone can and it only depends on the actual object authority) like it is on Windows.