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- From: SK0001@ACAD.DRAKE.EDU (Sal Kabalani)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.vms
- Subject: AUTHORIZE oddity
- Message-ID: <01GSO9W1B4KY000LHV@ACAD.DRAKE.EDU>
- Date: 24 Dec 92 05:19:01 GMT
- Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU
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- I have observed as oddity in AUTHORIZE. My feeling this is a known "bug" or
- "feature" in AUTHORIZE, but I thought I would share my experince with the rest
- of you for its educational value.
-
- Here is what happened:
-
- 1- Most of our files on the system (14 1.2 Gig, and 14 660 Meg disks) are owned
- by UIC [200,1], which is names DATABASE.
-
- 2- I needed to create an account for one of our subscribers, Arcadia Telephone
- Company, so I went into AUTHORIZE, copied the account of Manilla Telephone
- Company (MANILLA) into Arcadia Telephone (ARCADIA) for the purpose of
- creating the new account.
-
- 3- I reset the Device/Directory and Pasword for ARCADIA.
-
- 4- I then discovered that the acocunt name ARCADIA is not appropriate for this
- purpose (due to internal policies and procedures), so I copied ARCADIA to
- ARCADIATEL.
-
- 5- I then reset the device/directory and password for the new account
- ARCADIATEL. I then delted the old account ARCADIA.
-
- 6- When done, I listed a diretory on my files, and discovered that they are all
- owned by UIC [ARCADIATEL] instead of [DATABASE]. a Quick check revealed that
- ALL files that were previously owned by [DATABASE] are now owned by
- [ARCADIATEL]. Needless to say this was a source of alarm to me.
-
- 7- I concluded at this point that the Ideantifier [200,1] has somehow changed
- names, from [DATABASE] to [ARCADIATEL].
-
- 8- I went into AUTHORIZE, REMOVEd the identifier [ARCADIATEL], then I ADDed
- the identifier [DATABASE] as UIC [200,1]
-
- 9- Now all files are again owned by DATABASE.
-
- I am curious as to what caused the [200,1] change names like you have seen
- above.. Any ideas ?
-
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