[daip] Re: AIPS new user account

[Doug Finkbeiner]

Oh, unbelievable!  I only tried "0" and "1" and then gave up.

Ack!

Thanks much, and happy Thanksgiving and all that.

- Doug

P.S.  This might be considered a hole in otherwise very good
documentation!

On Wed, 23 Nov 2005, Eric Greisen wrote:

> 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
>
>
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