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Subject: checking for identifiers
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Date: Mon, 3-Aug-87 16:13:00 EDT
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        Listmember Hans Sundstrom (sundstro@finabo.bitnet) writes:

>       Can someone give me any pointers where to find a way to test by
>a program or command procedure if a process has been granted a specific
>identifier.  I've tried to find it in the manuals (microVMS) but haven't
>(obviously I have looked in the wrong place).
>
>       I would like to segregate some user's on a LAVC to some specific
>nodes (processors), by granting a user an identifier that allows him/her
>to use one or all nodes.  The cluster has a common SYSUAF.
>
>       The simplest way to do this is to create a file with ACL's and
>then try to access it, but I would like to do it directly from DCL or
>from a program.  Or is there a other way to do it without separate
>SYSUAF?

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Hans:

        There is a DCL lexical function called F$IDENTIFIER, which may be
what you are looking for.  I don't know much about it, so I can't give
any further details; sorry if you already knew about it.

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Rahul Mangaldas (rmangaldas@clarku.bitnet)
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