On Fri, 8 Sep 89 11:18:43 EDT Ross Patterson said: > Due to the fact that I'm leaving Rutgers soon, I've lately become To express publicly what I already expressed privately, good luck, you'll be missed. > > The other half of this is Node Administrator support. From my NAD >account, A024110, I found to request that A024012's AFD's be deleted >(by the "FOR A024012 AFD DEL <fn> <ft> <fl>" or "AFD FOR A024012 DEL >..." commands), I needed to know "his" password. "No problem," I >said, "I'll just find it out." I sent off a "PWC QUERY A024012", and >found to my surprise that the PWC command is only for Postmasters, >NADs can't use it. So there isn't any way for a NAD to alter the AFDs >and FUIs of his/her users without a password that he/she can't learn. >Support similar to the NAD support in the DELETE command would be real >useful here. In that same sense, I have tried to create a password on all servers. Finding out if I even have a password has been tricky. I now periodically send requests to new servers to add a password, but I'm not sure I have one at every server. If I netwide delete a user, I get a lot of messages about not having a password. When I request passwords, I often get responses from postmasters of "why do you need one?". If it was only so I won't get those messages, it will reduce network load. Unless you have a reason for not giving passwords, other postmaster might want to do what I have done, and change exit LSV$PW to allow all passwords to go through. As a user, I find nothing more frustrating that being told about a file that I should AFD, and then finding after I've AFD'd and deleted the memo, that I need a PW, I don't have one, and know I have to ask for one, wait, and try to remember which file(s) I need to AFD again after receiving the PW, and on which server it is located. > >Ross Patterson >Rutgers University, for now. Harry Williams