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ADD

REMOVE

SHOW

Parameters

Qualifiers

Example

/TERMINAL

/PORT

/PROXY

/LOG

Parameter

Qualifiers

Example

/USERNAME

/CONFIRM

/LOG

Parameter

Qualifiers

Example

/USERNAME

/OUTPUT

MCR SYSMAN ALF — VMS 5.4-3

Additional information available:

ADDREMOVESHOW

ADD

   Adds a new record to the Auto-Login Facility (ALF) database.

   Requires read (R) and write (W) access to the SYSALF database
   (SYS$SYSTEM:SYSALF.DAT by default).

   Format

     ALF ADD  device user

Additional information available:

ParametersQualifiersExample

Parameters

device
   Specifies the terminal name or port name that you want to assign
   to a user name. The parameter device must be a terminal name if
   you do not specify qualifiers on the command line, and can be
   either a logical name or an abbreviated device name.

user
   Specifies the user name of the account that you want to assign to
   a particular terminal or port.

Qualifiers

Additional information available:

/TERMINAL/PORT/PROXY/LOG

/TERMINAL

      /TERMINAL (default)

   Directs SYSMAN to check whether the device name you specified
   is a terminal on the target system. The parameter device can
   be a logical name or an abbreviated device name (which SYSMAN
   translates to a full device name).

/PORT

   Directs SYSMAN to check whether the device name you specified is a
   valid port. If the port name contains special characters, such as
   a slash (/), or if it contains lowercase letters that you want to
   preserve, you must enclose the port name within quotation marks
   ("").

/PROXY

   Directs SYSMAN to check whether the device name you specified
   is a valid port. SYSMAN also checks that device is in the
   NODE::USERNAME format.

/LOG

   Directs SYSMAN to display the device names and user names as they
   are added to the ALF database.

Example

   SYSMAN> ALF ADD TTA3 JBERGERON
   SYSMAN> ALF ADD "MN34C3/LC-1-2" FMARTIN /PORT

     In this example, the first command assigns terminal TTA3 to
     user JBERGERON. The second command assigns port MN34C3/LC-1-2
     to user FMARTIN.

REMOVE

   Removes one or more records from the ALF database.

   Requires read (R) and write (W) access to the SYSALF database
   (SYS$SYSTEM:SYSALF.DAT).

   Format

     ALF REMOVE  device

Additional information available:

ParameterQualifiersExample

Parameter

device
   Specifies the terminal name or port name whose record you want to
   remove from ALF. You can use wildcard characters in the terminal
   name or port name.

                                  NOTE

      When you specify device to remove a record from the ALF
      database, be sure to use the correct format. Enter the ALF
      SHOW command to display the device name format. Include
      special characters such as underscores (_) and colons (:).

Qualifiers

Additional information available:

/USERNAME/CONFIRM/LOG

/USERNAME

      /USERNAME=user

   Allows you to remove a record in ALF by specifying a user name
   rather than a terminal name or port name. You can use wildcard
   characters with the /USERNAME qualifier.

/CONFIRM

   Causes SYSMAN to display a message asking you to verify that you
   want to remove the record.

/LOG

   Causes SYSMAN to display each device name and user name after it
   has been removed from the ALF database.

Example

   SYSMAN> ALF REMOVE _TTA3:
   SYSMAN> ALF REMOVE /USERNAME=SMITHSON

     In this example, the first command removes the record for
     terminal TTA3. The second command removes all records assigned
     to user name SMITHSON

SHOW

   Displays one or more records in the ALF database.

   Requires read (R) and write (W) access to the SYSALF database
   (SYS$SYSTEM:SYSALF.DAT).

   Format

     ALF SHOW  [device]

Additional information available:

ParameterQualifiersExample

Parameter

[device]
   Specifies the terminal name or port name whose record you want to
   display. You can use wildcard characters in the terminal name or
   port name.

Qualifiers

Additional information available:

/USERNAME/OUTPUT

/USERNAME

      /USERNAME=user

   Allows you to display the records held by the specified user. You
   can use wildcard characters with this qualifier.

/OUTPUT

      /OUTPUT[=filespec]

   Allows you to direct the output of the command to a file. If
   you do not include a file specification with this qualifier,
   SYSMAN writes the output to the file SYSMAN.LIS in your default
   directory.

Example

   SYSMAN> ALF SHOW TTA* /USERNAME=MANESS /OUTPUT=ALF.TXT

     In this example, the records for all terminals named TTAx that
     are assigned to user MANESS, are selected and directed to the
     file ALF.TXT

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