Jeff Kell ([log in to unmask]) wrote: > I just noticed something... on 5.0 you cannot remove a user's home group! > > I've used this traditional "feature" (no home group) to enhance security > on critical accounts (if you password all groups, then a logon can > require three passwords). But you can't do this anymore. > SR# 5003158394 was submitted for this problem, first identified by our friends at VESOFT. Steve Elmer documented a possible workaround of assigning a non-existent group as the HOME. While this seems to work (the ALTUSER command does not complain and the homegroup is changed) it does not seem to work as a workaround. If you try to logon as a user whose homegroup does not exist you will get the following error: Account/user exist. Group name doesn't. (CIERR 1436) This will, however, just like having no homegroup, force the user to supply a group name. I guess maybe, in retrospect, it does work as a workaround. I first tried this from a 9000 workstation to a 5.0 PRE-PUSH machine and it dropped my connection entirely, which I found rather unfriendly and so I hesitated in qualifying it as a workaround. When I tried it via a serial connection and a VT from another 3K, it worked as above; giving me the error and allowing me to issue another logon command specifying a groupname. Hope this helps. -- --Pete Crosby ************************************************************************ * "Arguing with an Engineer is like mud-wrestling a pig. Pretty soon * * you realize the pig likes it" -author unknown * * * * Note: my comments are my own and do not reflect the views of my * * employer or necessarily anyone else. [log in to unmask] * ************************************************************************