All programs contained herein are copyright Beckman Instruments. No claim is made for usability and we will not be held liable for damages resulting from use of this program. No support is guaranteed but if you have questions (or we have the time), mail (prefered) or call: --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Don Roberts Internet: dsroberts@biivax.dp.beckman.com Beckman Instruments, Inc. Phone: 714/961-3029 2500 Harbor Bl. Mailstop X-12 FAX: 714/961-3351 Fullerton, CA 92634 Disclaimer: Not my fault --------------------------------------------------------------------------- [.id] ID is a program written by Bob Meyering at Beckman Instruments, Inc to allow a user who has an appropriate identifier (id_admin, see source) to grant and revoke identifiers. It is limited to identifiers the administrating user has been granted. Any change to id's is VMS MAILed to a distribution list, CMN$DIS:security.dis. You will need to define this or change the source. Beckman makes extensive use of ACL's and the practice of managing the ACL's of users has been troublesome. We grant acl by project and when a user becomes authorized for a project the ACL is granted. The group administrator needed the capability to grant IDENTIFIERS to users but we did not want to give out any privileges. This program allowed us to do that. [.inv] INV is a help library maintenance routine. We created a help file that includes our software products, patches, hardware, etc. for keeping track of releases and installations. This procedure can be used for any type of list. We also intended to add some hidden options for maintaining an encrypted list of passwords, but not in time for this release. [.scheduler] Scheduler is a program written at Beckman Instruments by Will Wood to schedule repetitive tasks in a different manner than QUEUE. This works very much like the new DECscheduler, but doesn't cost nearly as much (and predates it by A LOT). There are limitations: It only schedules to SYS$BATCH and it is day oriented. That means weekly things won't work (but that is what f$cvtime is for!). You can schedule things daily (/every) by time of day or repetitively (/at). Modifications welcome, let me know about them. [.reflection] The file logon.com that is included is a script for reflection that retains the username and password entered when the reflection user switches sessions, so they don't have to enter the username or password more than once. This can be real handy if you have PC's connecting via reflection and multiple vaxes that they can connect to. If not, then you really don't need this, do you? This is a last minute addition to our submission.