Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!seismo!uwvax!oddjob!hao!ames!ucbcad!ucbvax!GALLUA.BITNET!CADS_COLE From: CADS_COLE@GALLUA.BITNET (Kevin Cole; Gallaudet U.; Washington; DC) Newsgroups: comp.os.vms Subject: RE: How can I convert a process's Username on the fly? Message-ID: <8707232035.AA00738@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU> Date: Thu, 23-Jul-87 16:35:50 EDT Article-I.D.: ucbvax.8707232035.AA00738 Posted: Thu Jul 23 16:35:50 1987 Date-Received: Sat, 25-Jul-87 08:44:41 EDT Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Distribution: world Organization: The ARPA Internet Lines: 23 To whomever asked (sorry I forgot): Do these folks need seperate and distinct directories (as opposed to sub- directories all under the same owner)? I'm certainly no VAX wizard, but the way my own account is set up offers a possible solution. The computer center here set up one directory/UIC for the entire department. But when we login, we all use different usernames. The system then dumps us into our own little sub-directory and runs our own LOGIN.COM. For all intents and purposes, we are seperate entities, but we cannot protect files from one another. We each have a MAIL.MAI file and can send messages to one another just like normal users... I don't know how it's done, but I suspect it of being nothing out of the ordinary. Am I missing something? Are there pitfalls here? Or doesn't it apply in your situation? -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Kevin ColeKJCOLE@GALLUA.BITNET Center for Assessment and Demographic Studies (CADS) CADS_COLE@GALLUA.BITNET Gallaudet Research Institute (GRI) Gallaudet University Washington, D.C. 20002 (202) 651-5575