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From: Yaacov Fenster @ISO 882-3153  10-Oct-1992 1818
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Subject: Re: Finding a users disk name

> From: VBORMC::"MACRO32@WKUVX1.BITNET" "MAIL-11 Daemon"  9-OCT-1992 21:11:38.53
> To:   MACRO32@WKUVX1.BITNET
> CC:
> Subj: Re: Finding a users disk name
>
> > Hello, I'm helping a friend of mine write a program that kinda simulates
> > a unix-type operating system. What we are having trouble with is the
> > cd ~user  command. We don't know how to get the person's disk area name
> > from their username. We'd like to be able to do cd ~user and have the
> > program give us back disk$xxx:[user]. Is there an easy way to do this,
> > and a way to do it without having operator privileges. Oh, we are using
> > VMS version 5.5
>
> What we do here for nonpriv access to low-level SYSUAF info is use the
> LIST command from AUTHORIZE to gererate a file with basic info, and then
> place it in a world readable spot with appropriate access privs so that
> anyone can use it.  A simple SEARCH on this file will return not only

How about this idea:
Use SYS$GETUAI to get the (up to date !!) information from the sysuaf.
Install the program using SYSPRV privileges (for access to all users) or GRPPRV
(for access to group only).
The items you need are UAI$_DEFDEV & UAI$_DEFDIR.
This has the added advantage of not breaking even if the LIST command from
 AUTHORIZE changes
it's format. And imagine new information being added to the database which is
 output using the LIST command -
which means that IT WILL CHANGE.

        Yaacov
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Yaacov Fenster                  +(972)-3-9307239
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All the opinions voiced are mine alone and do not reflect anyone else's
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