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Article #297Re: Finding a users disk name
From: Feet...!? You had FEET?
Date: Wed, 07 Oct 1992 18:39
Date: Wed, 07 Oct 1992 18:39
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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. Tom O'Toole - ecf_stbo@jhuvms.hcf.jhu.edu - JHUVMS system programmer Homewood Computing Facilities, Johns Hopkins University, Balto. Md. 21218 >Here comes a jet ski. >weuh weeuhh weeuhh weeuhh WEEUHH WEEUHH WEEUHH WEEUHH weeuhh weeuhh weeuhh weuh
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Newsgroups: vmsnet.internals Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!stanford.edu!agate!spool.mu.edu!caen!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!darwin.sura.net!jhunix.hcf.jhu.edu!jhuvms.hcf.jhu.edu!ecf_stbo From: ecf_stbo@jhuvms.hcf.jhu.edu (Feet...!? You had FEET?) Subject: Re: Finding a users disk name Message-ID: <7OCT199213391031@jhuvms.hcf.jhu.edu> News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.41 Sender: news@jhunix.hcf.jhu.edu (JHU News Administrator) Organization: The Johns Hopkins University - HCF References: <1992Oct7.031040.5662@gw.wmich.edu> <1992Oct7.084705.1063@galaxy.gov.bc.ca> Date: Wed, 7 Oct 1992 18:39:00 GMT Lines: 16