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Subject: Decnet Etiquette
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Date: Thu, 17-Jul-86 22:16:15 EDT
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Posted: Thu Jul 17 22:16:15 1986
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    From:     carl@CitHex.Caltech.Edu (Carl J Lydick)

    The default DECnet account tends to be charged to some sort of overhead
    account on many VAXen, so any costs associated with its use tend to be
    unrecoverable in any useful sense; further, because of the fact that it
    tends to be accessible to anybody on the same DECnet, system managers ...
    tend to view use of that account ... with some degree of alarm.

  We solved that by giving everyone a PROXY account.  If someone has a
PROXY account on the destination machine, any NETWORK jobs of theirs
will execute in that account rather than the DECnet default account.
  Before we did theis, some users would execute expensive tasks in the
DECnet default account to avoid being charged for their usage.

								...Keith