30 Oct
2000
30 Oct
'00
4:42 a.m.
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#6017accoun…
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