[Info-vax] Need help in REVOKE

[Jan-Erik Soderholm]

adityagtm4 at gmail.com wrote 2013-02-13 14:41:
> 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!
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>> 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..!
>

If you do *not* have perl installed already, and you know how to
"use" perl, my recomendation is to do it with a simple DCL routine
as has been described by others.

Jan-Erik.