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
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