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- Subject: Re: Finger
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- From: Stafford@Vax2.Winona.MSUS.EDU (John Stafford)
- Date: 23 Nov 92 13:01:08 -0600
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- In article <01GRHM6CVI6A0000EV@techno.isc.rit.edu>,
- ECLDCO@techno.isc.rit.edu (Eric Loyd - Data Center Operations, x7320)
- wrote:
- >
- > >
- > >Curious. Why do you put that info there to begin with? I suspect
- > >it is for some record-keeping function. Unfortunate because SYSUAF.DAT
- > >has a free area which you can use for such purposes.
- >
- > Please inform me. What "free area" is this? In looking in the AUTHORIZE
- > facility, I was unable to find any qualifier on the ADD command. The OWNER
- > field is used for billing purposes and for automated system authorization
- > functions. With over 16,000 accounts, it can get to be quite a headache.
- >
- Whoops, it is not available through AUTHORIZE. It is simply an area
- of the uaf record and you have to program to get at it. If this is not
- a feasible approach, then an alternative is to build a simple indexed
- sequential file (easily read/written via DCL) to associate records with
- SYSUAF. Even this may not be feasible, depending upon what you want to
- do. If you would like to share these needs, perhaps via EMail, maybe
- we can work something out. Many of us have similar problems and are
- coping in various ways. (hey, digital -- how about making this area
- a user-accessible one through Authorize?)
-