topic Re: UAF code in Operating System - OpenVMS

UAF code

Simon Fedele — Mon, 08 Aug 2005 18:37:37 GMT

I need to write a dcl procedure which will extract all usernames from the uaf which have not had a login for greater than a certain number of months. I was hoping someone may have already written something similiar. Any help would be appreciated

Re: UAF code

Robert_Boyd — Mon, 08 Aug 2005 18:50:51 GMT

you'll want to get a copy of SCANUAF or one of the other freeware utilities. This utility and some of the others make this a snap.

You can get your answer with one command once you get SCANUAF.

Here's a link

http://vms.process.com/scripts/fileserv/fileserv.com?SCANUAF

Also see this previous discussion:

http://forums1.itrc.hp.com/service/forums/questionanswer.do?threadId=707687

Robert

Re: UAF code

John Gillings — Mon, 08 Aug 2005 20:43:00 GMT

Simon,
It would be possible to do this in DCL - just OPEN/READ/SHARE SYSUAF and read through it.

The catch is you need to figure out where the username and last login fields are, and that may change in the future. See $UAFDEF for current values.

Re: UAF code

Simon Fedele — Mon, 08 Aug 2005 21:44:59 GMT

Robert,

thanks for that. scanuaf works perfectly for what I need to do.

John,

Thanks for your suggestions also

Re: UAF code

John Gillings — Mon, 08 Aug 2005 21:47:59 GMT

Simon,

Just to show it can be done...

The attached command procedure does what you ask, BUT, note there are some undocumented and unsupported DCL constructs (F$FAO hacks).

The record layout is derived at run time from $UAFDEF. For systems below V7.3-2, there may be UAF records longer than 1000 characters, these cannot be handled in DCL, so they're skipped. You will see a DCL-W-BUFOVF error for each one, and there will be a report at the end counting the number of lines which were skipped.

The procedure depends on the PIPE command, so it won't run on versions below V7.

Usual disclaimers... use at your own risk. This kind of thing should be done from a real programming language.

Re: UAF code

Hein van den Heuvel — Mon, 08 Aug 2005 22:56:26 GMT

Google for: +sysuaf +"last login" +site:itrc.hp.com

This quickly leads to:

http://forums1.itrc.hp.com/service/forums/questionanswer.do?threadId=890732

Where this very question was asked and answerred.

Regards,
Hein.

Re: UAF code

Simon Fedele — Mon, 08 Aug 2005 23:23:09 GMT

Thanks again to John & Hein - thats is excellent.

I think I have enough options now so I will close this thread

Re: UAF code

Simon Fedele — Mon, 08 Aug 2005 23:23:38 GMT

Thread closed