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