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.center;MAKACT
.center;An Account Creation Program
.center;for Large VAX Environments
.center;by
.center;Patrick Feldner
.center;Illinois Institute of Technology
.center;Chicago Ill, 60616
.center;Phone: (312) 567-5962
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Systems managers in large VMS environments are faced with the problem of
creating many accounts for many classes of users on a single machine.
We have developed an account creation program MAKACT, which allows for
the easy creation and destruction of various classes of accounts through 
a single, comprehensive program.
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Accounts are created by running an account creation shell which
prompts for a specific command such as MAKE,
DISUSER, REMOVE, ADD, DELETE, MODIFY, SHOW, HELP, and EXIT.
By issuing any of these commands the program will enter the specified
account management mode.  
Within each mode of account creation the program will prompt the user
for relevant account information.
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This is a unified and flexible way of setting up accounts for any, but 
especially
large VMS systems.  It has been successfully implemented on a large VAX/VMS
installation at a University Computing Center for the creation of various
types of accounts for research, class use, and general departmental computing.
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.center;MAKE and MAKE/LIST
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The account creation begins by inquiring the account type, sub-type, and
the funds to be allocated to each of the account names created.  Once
this information has been input the program will verify this information
with the semester budget file.  This is an indexed file with predefined
templates which are used in account creation which specify parameters 
such as UIC group number, diskquota, user disk, PACS charge rate,
and semester budget
remaining for a particular "class" of account.  If there is an error in
locating the "class" entry the program will return a warning message and 
instruct you to use the ADD command to add the "class" to the semester
budget file.  The ADD command will be discussed at a later point in the 
paper.  After establishing the proper defaults the work files are opened
and intialized for the "class". and appended to when the names are input
for the particular "class".  Other templates specify the
defaults and customized settings for UAF parameters and ACL's for the 
associated directories, etc.
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.center;REMOVE, REMOVE/CONFIRM, and REMOVE/LIST
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This mode of the program will ask either for the file name of the list of
usernames, the format of the list must be that of the SYSUAF.LIS file, or
if the qualifier is not specified then just the appropriate username is 
required.  This in turn will create the associated work files to remove the
UAF entry, disk quota entry and the files on the system for the specified
user.
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.center;DISUSER and DISUSER/LIST
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This mode of the program will ask either for the file name of the list of
usernames, the format of the list must be that of the SYSUAF.LIS file, or
if the qualifier is not specified then just the appropriate username is 
required.  This in turn will create the associated work files to disuser the
UAF entry.
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.center;ADD, DELETE, MODIFY SHOW, and SHOW/LIST
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The sole purpose of these modes are to manage the semester budget file.  This
will allow online additions, deletions, etc. of account "classes".  The SHOW
command will display entries in the semester budget file and the /LIST 
qualifier will send the output to a specified file.
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.center;HELP and EXIT
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The HELP command is a VMS style help library for online assistance in the 
creation and deletion of the accounts.  The EXIT command is specified by the 
CONTROL-Z character.  The command will close the particular mode that the user
was in and put the user in the next higher mode in the program.  If the 
character CONTROL-Z is given on the top mode, the program will exit to the
DCL command line.