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- From: zzassgl@uts.mcc.ac.uk (Geoff Lane)
- Newsgroups: comp.unix.large
- Subject: Can project based accounting be done on Unix?
- Message-ID: <5453@mccuts.uts.mcc.ac.uk>
- Date: 28 Jul 92 10:24:20 GMT
- Organization: Manchester Computing Centre, Manchester, England, M13 9PL.
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- Against my better wishes I have to implement a `project' based accounting
- system on top of the standard AT&T Unix process accounting. Projects are
- represented by arbitary eight character text strings (which could be mapped
- to small integers in the implementation) and each process that executes has
- to be associated with one such string. Projects can have one or more users
- and each user can be a member of one or more projects (but only one project
- at a time.) Users have to be able to change projects at any point with a
- command and all subsequent processes executed in the same login session
- have to be associated with the new project.
-
- I don't really want to modify the Unix kernel unless it is absolutely
- necessary.
-
- So far the best idea anyone has suggested is using the Unix groups as
- projects but I dislike using groups for two disjoint purposes (the project
- structure would impose restrictions on how users could share files is one
- obvious problem.)
-
- Has anyone had to do something similar and is willing to share their
- experiences?
- --
- Geoff. Lane. Janet: zzassgl@uk.ac.mcc.uts
- UTS Sys Admin, Manchester Computing Centre, Oxford Rd, Manchester, M13 9PL
-