On Sun, Oct 29, 2000 at 07:48:32PM -0700, Jim Strickland wrote:
> Could someone give me the quick walk through on what it takes to create an
> account in VMS 7.2? I used to know this, but it's been a long time.
>
> The steps I remember are:
>
> 1. use authorize to add an identifier for the person.
> 2. use authorize to add the person.
> 3. create their directory.
> 4. use authorize to set their password and clear the disuser flag.
> 5. log in on squeeky clean new account.
>
> The problem is, I have an account on my vaxstation, but either I never
> managed to get it to work or I forgot thet password. The security
> alerts that come up in audit server tell me my password is bad, even
> when I'm typing in what I just used authorize mod jim/password=<whatever>
> to set.
Ask, and ye shall receive:
http://www.openvms.compaq.com:8000/72final/6017/6017pro_019.html#6017accounts
Thank God Compaq left the OpenVMS documentation website up.
The quick summary is (example user is named "JONES" and lives in
UIC 100,1 [an arbitrary number, I don't know good VMS group number
conventions]):
$ SET DEFAULT SYS$SYSTEM
$ RUN AUTHORIZE
UAF> ADD JONES/PASSWORD=PA55WORD/UIC=[100,1] -
_UAF> /DEVICE=DISK$USER/DIRECTORY=[JONES] -
_UAF> /OWNER="Bob Jones"/ACCOUNT=USERS -
_UAF> /FLAGS=NODISUSER
(the NODISUSER flag prevents the account from being disabled
by default)
-Seth
Received on Mon Oct 30 2000 - 12:42:55 GMT