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On Wed, 13 May 1992 09:02:12 BST Graham Bryan said:
>We have a few instances where a VM username is accessed by a number
>of  people  using  the 'BY/<username>/<password>'  facility  within
>VMSECURE.
>
>One of the  people controlling one of these  'shared' usernames has
>asked if  if it is  possible in some  way to 'get-at'  the username
>used as  part of  the 'BY'  password. The idea  would be  that this
>would then  be used  to configure  part of  the enviroment  for the
>shared  username   (e.g.  adding  the  correct   signature  to  any
>electronic mail set out).
>
>Does anyone  know if this  sort of thing  is possible, or  have and
>suggestions one how something similar might be doen?

Just a thought or two....

Be sure that the VMSecure RULES for the target user which ACCEPT LOGONBY
has the 'HISTORY' option, and that you have generated some (say, 10-20)
History records (GENHS command).  Once logged in the "VMSECURE HISTORY"
command will display however many history records you GENHS'ed; you can
use this in a Rexx/EXEC with something such as WAKEUP or IUCVTRAP to
fetch the ID from the BY/.... and do what you will with it.  (I would
put it into a GLOBALV SESSION variable.)   If you use this method
be sure to set the VMSecure option to immediately update the userid
rather than 'batch' updates every so often, otherwise the HISTORY won't
show up for a minute or two and you will probably want to capture it
right away -- probably in the PROFILE EXEC.  (In VMSecure config
file 'DELAYHIS 0' will accomplish this.  The default is DELAYHIS 60.)

Another method would be to use one of the VMSecure exit's to make the
BY/userid information availble to the LOGONBY userid.  POSTRULE exit
probably?  In this case you can handle how you want to do it in any
number of ways.

My remarks are based on: VMSECURE 4.2D
newer release may have more capability in exits and/or the ability
to stack all queries -- such as VMSECURE HISTORY.

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