[daip] Re: AIPS new user account

[Eric Greisen]

Doug Finkbeiner writes:

 > I've just compiled and installed AIPS here in Princeton
 > (it seems nobody else had yet) and the instructions for how to do
 > all that were very clear.  Thanks for that.
 > 
 > I'm just wondering, how do I create a new user account?
 > When I start AIPS (and choose a printer) I get
 > 
 > AIPS 1: Enter user ID number
 > ?
 > 
 > And the cookbook says "enter the user ID number you have been given."
 > I don't know what that means, and can't find anything about creating
 > new user accounts in the FAQ for managers.
 > 

This concept is mostly from the time when 100's of users visited NRAO
and used our 3 VAX computers.  We had to tell the users apart and
so assigned them numbers.  This concept continues today on our public
machines.

On your desktop, however, that only you will use, any positive number
(but 1) will do.  In fact most users use multiple numbers to separate
their projects.

1 is reserved for the aips manager and has privileges and has by
default a password (AMANAGER).  There is an upper limit 36**3 - 1 but
it is best to use smaller numbers than that.

Eric Greisen