From:	MERC::"uunet!CRVAX.SRI.COM!RELAY-INFO-VAX" 14-APR-1992 20:46:48.07
To:	INFO-VAX@SRI.COM
CC:	
Subj:	Re: Looking for Automatic Account Generation Software

Paul R. Taylor recently wrote to the net:

>	The State University of New York College at Oswego
>	is going to move over to a system where each student,
>	faculty member, and staff person will be getting an
>	account on all of our systems as soon as they become
>	affiliated with the campus.
> 
>	We are looking into writing the software required to
>	do the automatic creation and deletions of accounts
>	for multiple hardware/software platforms including VMS,
>	and a few different flavors of Unix.  However before
>	starting on this project I thought that it would be a
>	good idea to see if any other institutions out there
>	might have some similar type of program that they would
>	be willing to share with us.
> 
>	Any Help that you could provide would be greatly
>	appreciated. Please send all responses via E-Mail
>	because we seem to loose large portions of some groups.
> 
>	Thanks in advance,
> 
>	Paul

Paul,

I strongly suggest that you, and anyone else interested in this topic, attend
DECUS in Atlanta and attend session ED024 which is to be given on Friday the
8th of May in room "363 - GWCC" from 11:00am to 12:00 noon.  This session
has the titles "Managing 10,00 VMS Users" and "A Networked, Heterogeneous
Accounting and Account Management System".

This session describes a system which "does what you want", although maybe
not exactly the way you want it -- but that can be fixed.  The system was
developed at the University of Washington and is used to manage accounts
for VAX/VMS, VM/CMS, VM/HPO, VM/XA, Dynix (Sequent Un*x), Ultrix, BSD 4.2,
AIX, and I am not sure what else.  A version was also available for NOS,
an operating system for Control Data Corporation Cyber computers.

The system is currently set up to allow all students, faculty, and staff of
the University of Washington to create, on demand, their own account which
allows them to use any of the computing facilities managed by UCS.

Its great stuff, and its easily available.

P.S.
	Yes, it is my session.  :)

-Derek S. Haining
 University Computing Services
 University of Washington
 Seattle, Washington  98195 
 (206) 543-5579

 DEREK@MAX.BITNET
 DEREK@MAX.U.WASHINGTON.EDU


The submission here contains this software, plus a net print/plot
system for VMS and Unix and some other items. It is very much a
last minute arrival, hence the material is left in the savesets
in which it was submitted, except that these are compressed to
reduce space consumption. Listings of the compressed savesets are
present as file.LIS to facilitate extraction.

  Note that the original .BCK files were renamed to *.BCK_32256
and put in the ZOO archive ALLBCKS.ZOO to save space (45000 blocks
down to 14000!)
  to restore, use the ZOO and FILE commands in the tools directory
($zoo:==$[92avaxlt.tools]zoo, and $set command [92avaxlt.tools]file
first, MODIFYING these to fit your configuration and adding device name).

the commands needed are the following:

$zoo e allbcks
$file/type=fixed/record=32256/attr=noimpliedcc *.bck_32256
$rename *.bck_32256 *.bck

Now the files will be restorea and all names will be as they were
originally. You can pull the savesets apart as you wish.