[daip] dumb question (fwd)

[Eric Greisen]

Sara Beck writes:

The dumb thing was your choice of subject line.  The mail was marked
discard but I got curious.  We get tons of spam and only a little real
stuff. > 
 > 
 > 
 > I know people like to say there is no such thing as a dumb question, but
 > this I propose as a counter-example: I installed AIPS on my PowerBook in
 > late December (with help from Eric G.),  did 5 minutes of work on it, and
 > haven't needed it until now, when I realize that I have forgotten the User
 > ID and password that has to be entered.  So I ask, what is the user ID and
 > password that would be on AIPS just after installation, when nothing has
 > been done to change it?

Only user 1 has a default password inside aips and that is AMANAGER.

I would do the following:

cd your first data area.

ls -laF MSD*

You will see files like
primate<323>$ cd /DATA/PRIMATE_1
/DATA/PRIMATE_1
primate<324>$ ls -laF MSD*
-rw-rw-r--    1 egreisen aips        40960 Feb 15 14:52 MSD001000.001;
-rw-rw-r--    1 egreisen aips        16384 Aug  9  2004 MSD002000.002;
-rw-rw-r--    1 egreisen aips        24576 Jan 24 09:36 MSD003000.003;
-rw-rw-r--    1 egreisen aipspgmr   743424 Feb 16 11:51 MSD004000.004;
-rw-rw-r--    1 egreisen aips        24576 Jan 26 11:07 MSD005000.005;
-rw-rw-r--    1 egreisen aips        49152 Jan 18 14:15 MSD006000.006;
-rw-rw-r--    1 egreisen aips        16384 Feb 25  2004 MSD009000.009;
-rw-rw-r--    1 egreisen aipspgmr    16384 Oct 15 14:22 MSD00A000.00A;
-rw-rw-r--    1 egreisen aipspgmr    16384 Aug 13  2004 MSD00B000.00B;
-rw-rw-r--    1 egreisen aipspgmr    16384 Feb 15 13:34 MSD00C000.00C;
-rw-rw-r--    1 egreisen aips        49152 Apr 20  2004 MSD00D000.00D;
-rw-rw-r--    1 egreisen aips       131072 Jan 26 13:18 MSD00N000.00N;
-rw-rw-r--    1 egreisen aipspgmr    16384 Apr  4  2004 MSD00Z000.00Z;
-rw-rw-r--    1 egreisen aips        16384 Jan 26 13:21 MSD010000.010;
-rw-rw-r--    1 egreisen aips         3072 Aug 30  1999 MSD01A000.01A;
-rw-rw-r--    1 egreisen aips         3072 Jul 30  2003 MSD01G000.01G;
-rw-rw-r--    1 egreisen aips        13312 Feb 15  2004 MSD025000.025;
-rw-rw-r--    1 egreisen aips         3072 Jul  6  2004 MSD02Q000.02Q;
-rw-rw-r--    1 egreisen aips        13312 Jul  6  2004 MSD02R000.02R;
-rw-rw-r--    1 egreisen aipspgmr    16384 Jul 30  2003 MSD02S000.02S;
-rw-rw-r--    1 egreisen aips         3072 Dec 28 08:54 MSD03F000.03F;
-rw-rw-r--    1 egreisen aips        77824 Oct 16 11:28 MSD05X000.05X;
-rw-rw-r--    1 egreisen aips         3072 Dec  3  2003 MSD08O000.08O;
-rw-rw-r--    1 egreisen aips        13312 Nov  4  1999 MSD0AA000.0AA;
-rw-rw-r--    1 egreisen aipspgmr     3072 Mar 11  2003 MSD0G0000.0G0;
-rw-rw-r--    1 egreisen aipspgmr    16384 Sep 21 16:30 MSD0G2000.0G2;
-rw-rw-r--    1 egreisen aipspgmr    13312 Aug  4  2002 MSD0G6000.0G6;
-rw-rw-r--    1 egreisen aipspgmr    13312 Feb 24  2003 MSD0GB000.0GB;
-rw-rw-r--    1 egreisen aipspgmr    54272 Jul 30  2002 MSD0RS000.0RS;
-rw-rw-r--    1 egreisen aips        13312 Sep 27 15:17 MSD0WD000.0WD;
-rw-rw-r--    1 egreisen aips        13312 Jul  6  2004 MSD11W000.11W;
-rw-rw-r--    1 egreisen aips        16384 Apr  4  2004 MSD1N1000.1N1;
-rw-rw-r--    1 egreisen aipspgmr    23552 Jun 18  2002 MSD1NK000.1NK;
-rw-rw-r--    1 egreisen aips        16384 Jun 28  2004 MSD1OJ000.1OJ;
-rw-rw-r--    1 egreisen aipspgmr    16384 Mar 28  2002 MSD1QO000.1QO;
-rw-rw-r--    1 egreisen aipspgmr    23552 Dec 23  2002 MSD1QV000.1QV;
-rw-rw-r--    1 egreisen aips        16384 Jan 26 13:21 MSD1UP000.1UP;
-rw-rw-r--    1 egreisen aips        88064 Jan 27 14:35 MSD1UQ000.1UQ;
-rw-rw-r--    1 egreisen aipspgmr    13312 Jul 30  2003 MSD1V9000.1V9;
-rw-rw-r--    1 egreisen aipspgmr    13312 Jul 14  2003 MSD1VQ000.1VQ;
primate<325>$ 

Wow - I did not realize how much hangs out in my area!

Anywat the last three digits before the semi-colon give the user
number in extended HEX (base 36 0-9,A-Z).  The proc $SYSLOCAL/REHEX or
verb REHEX inside aips will translate

primate<325>$ REHEX 1VQ
2438

This should give you a clue as to the user number you used.  A
colleague is working on a tool to make a web page showing her what
sources are on what disks for which user numbers based on the dearder
et al.  If she ever finishes, I may be able to make that tool more
generally available.

Eric Greisen