Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!att!osu-cis!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!bloom-beacon!mit-eddie!bu-cs!purdue!decwrl!sun!pitstop!sundc!seismo!uunet!mcvax!ukc!stl!scott
From: scott@stl.stc.co.uk (Mike Scott)
Newsgroups: comp.os.vms
Subject: Setting the 'user' for a process
Keywords: username rshd network loginout
Message-ID: <679@acer.stl.stc.co.uk>
Date: 25 May 88 15:29:04 GMT
Reply-To: scott@stl.stc.co.uk (Mike Scott)
Organization: STL,Harlow,UK.
Lines: 15

I want to be able to create a process to run with a different username
from the creating process. Normally processes are created with a
username the same as the creating process - loginout is the only
program I know which can set the username.

This is connection with some networking software - I want to write the
equivalent of the un*x 'rshd' for VMS (to use with the CMU/TEK TCP/IP
software), so need to create processes with a given username, but
without the full rigmarole of loginout asking for information.

Can anyone help please, or perhaps someone already has written this
code anyway (ever hopeful :-) ??
-- 
Regards. Mike Scott (scott@stl.stc.co.uk <or> ...uunet!mcvax!ukc!stl!scott)
phone +44-279-29531 xtn 3133.