Hello

After closing baan (by ba6.1 / bshell6.1 on 700 or ipc_info on 400) I would like to give entrance to the system to a limited number of (normal)users.

I understood from baan support that it would be possible to change the ipc_info file and add in the same directory a file which contains the Baan users names who be allowed to log in.

any suggestions how this might look like?

regards

Max

edit the file $BSE/lib/ipc_info
edit the first line: change "bshell" into "bshell_test"
Tell your users to change the bshell name in the BW-configuration screen into "bshell_test"

If you want to give access to all:
copy the first line to a line with "bshell"

Ome Luuk, thanks for that idea, I hadnt thought of that. We will implement the GUI later this year, until then what possibilities are there with ascii Baan?

regards

Max

This should be easy with some scripting.
Create a file that contains the users allowed to log on to baan.
Change the .profile of all users, read this file and grep the users name ($USER). If it is a hit, continue the .profile and call ba6.1, exit if the users name was not found.

hth

Norbert

with ASCII you can do the same:
put your bshell name bshell_test into variable DS_AS:
set DS_AS=bshell_name [for ba6.1 only, to specify a specific bshell name from ipc_info] : like setting Bshell Name in bw

You can put this in the .profile of the specific users.

Go with a simple way (as bsp):

- move your $BSE/lib/user to user.bak
- create a new user directopry, chmod 770 on it
- copy the ufiles of the users that need to login from the user.bak into the user (include uroot and ubsp and any other needs ufiles, like job users)