INF: Cannot Add the "Guest" Username

ID Number: Q41328

1.00 1.10 1.11 4.20

OS/2

Summary:

The word "guest" is a special username that does not have a

corresponding login ID. There is no way to add it using SAF if it is

deleted. SAF should display the guest username in the add username

dialog whenever guest is not already a valid username.

GUEST can be added again by enabling updates to system tables and

INSERTing a ROW in SYSUSERS as follows, where "?" is a currently

unused user ID (GUEST is normally UID 2):

INSERT SYSUSERS VALUES(-1,?,0,'guest')

Additional reference words: guest