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- From: jhawk@panix.com (John Hawkinson)
- Subject: Re: Account creation utilities?
- Message-ID: <1992Nov18.044040.10629@panix.com>
- Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1992 04:40:40 GMT
- References: <01GR9BYHRK6O9BW1GZ@SPOCK.FHCRC.ORG>
- Organization: PANIX Public Access Unix, NYC
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- In <01GR9BYHRK6O9BW1GZ@SPOCK.FHCRC.ORG> JOE@SPOCK.FHCRC.ORG (Joe Meadows) writes:
-
- >> I'm looking for a utility which would allow users who don't
- >>have write access to SYSUAF.DAT to be able to create and modify
- >>accounts. I know such a beast exists, and I recall someone mentioning
- >>it, but I can't seem to find it in the VMS software list.
-
-
- >How about using INSTALL SYS$SYSTEM:AUTHORIZE/PRIV=BYPASS? It sounds like
- >it would be exactly what you're asking for!
-
- Err, no.
-
- The point is that I'd like to allow certain users who aren't fully
- priv'd to create certain accounts (say, in a specific group), without
- being able to grant privs. In your example, anyone can just give
- themselves BYPASS or SETPRV or CMKRNL or whatever...
-
- --
- John Hawkinson
- jhawk@panix.com
-