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- Path: sparky!uunet!gumby!wmichgw!737ochs
- From: 737ochs@gw.wmich.edu
- Newsgroups: vmsnet.internals
- Subject: Re: Finding a users disk name
- Message-ID: <1992Oct7.140950.5672@gw.wmich.edu>
- Date: 7 Oct 92 14:09:50 EST
- References: <1992Oct7.031040.5662@gw.wmich.edu> <1992Oct7.084705.1063@galaxy.gov.bc.ca> <7OCT199213391031@jhuvms.hcf.jhu.edu>
- Organization: Western Michigan University
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- In article <7OCT199213391031@jhuvms.hcf.jhu.edu>, ecf_stbo@jhuvms.hcf.jhu.edu (Feet...!? You had FEET?) writes:
- > In article <1992Oct7.084705.1063@galaxy.gov.bc.ca>, EWILTS@GALAXY.GOV.BC.CA writes...
- >>The only place the user's default device and directory is stored is in
- >>SYSUAF.DAT. Any method you choose for determining the device must have read
- >>access to this file. This doesn't require "operator privileges" - READALL,
- >>SYSPRV, or BYPASS will suffice, or you can install the image you use to get the
- >>default with privilege so that the end user doesn't need them.
- >
- > Actually I'm reasonably sure any user can get the information (for
- > themselves) by calling $getuai. And I think what this guy was asking
- > for is as simple as translating the logical name SYS$LOGIN. Not really
- > much of an internals question.
-
- Well, actually I don't need SYS$LOGIN, that will only get MY disk area,
- I'm looking for a way to say from my account cd ~joeschmo and I need the
- function to perform SET DEFAULT DISK$BLAH:[JOESCHMO]
- mainly I need to find out what disk pack the user is on, and if they are in
- a group, which group they are in, for example, an account might look like this
- DISK$CS:[CSxxx.username]
- I would need to be able to find the DISK$CS and the CSxxx
- And thanks for the replies so far, but I willnot be able to get the sys admin
- to install it for me to get sys privs for the program.
- Thanks
- Fred Ochs
-