[Info-vax] Need help in REVOKE

[adityagtm4 at gmail.com]

On Wednesday, 13 February 2013 00:07:10 UTC+5:30, Hein RMS van den Heuvel  wrote:
> On Tuesday, February 12, 2013 5:23:47 AM UTC-5, adity... at gmail.com wrote:
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> > Hi
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> :
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> > but how can I revoke all the identifier in a single command. 
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> I first saw this question appear in an Attunity forum. 
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> Here is what I answered over there....
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> This appears to be strictly an OpenVMS question with no direct relationship to Attunity (products).
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> As such a better place for the (future) questions would have been the comp.os.vms newsgroup, the HP ITRC OpenVMS Forum, or perhaps stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/openvms.
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> Still, since you have our attention anyway...
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> OpenVMS rights are granted and removed one at a time. 
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> No wildcard support exists.
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> Best you can do is a quick editor, dcl or perl script to parse AUTHORIZE SHOW [/RIGHTS] information.
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> Here is an example in perl looking for any identifier starting with "TES".
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> UAF> grant /ident test_a hein
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> UAF> grant /ident test_b hein
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> $ pipe mcr authorize show hein | -
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> perl -ne "$u=$1 if /me: (\w+)/;print qq(REVOKE/ID $1 $u\n) if /(TES\w*)\s+%X/"
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> REVOKE/ID TEST_A HEIN
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> REVOKE/ID TEST_B HEIN
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> After verifying the rigth output paste that text at the UAF prompt
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> You can even re-direct to a Authorize, or into a file, check and execute:
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> $ pipe mcr authorize show hein | -
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> perl -ne "$u=$1 if /me: (\w+)/;print qq(REVOKE/ID $1 $u\n) if /(TES\w*)\s+%X/" > revoke.tmp
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> $ type revoke.tmp
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> ...
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> $ pipe mcr authorize < revoke.tmp
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> Enjoy!
> 
> Hein

Hi Hein,

Can you please tell me all these thing step-by-step... I am newbie to OpenVMS.
I hope you'll help me out.

Thanks..!