[Info-vax] : AUTHORIZE Enhancement

[osuvman50 at gmail.com]

On Sunday, November 20, 2016 at 10:20:52 AM UTC-5, David Froble wrote:
> AUTHORIZE, as part of the VMS OS, does it's job.  What you appear to be asking 
> for goes far beyond access to an OS.  Not saying it isn't a good thing, or 
> needed, and such, just saying that it's in reality an application that 
> transcends what one might expect for access to an OS.  The fact that people have 
> tried to use AUTHORIZE for more than it was ever intended is not the fault of 
> AUTHORIZE, it's the fault of those misusing a tool.  You know, square peg and 
> round hole, driving a screw with a hammer, driving a nail with a screwdriver, 
> and such.
> 
> So, if you need something like you're asking for, design and implement it, or 
> purchase it, or ....   Just don't say that something that was never intended for 
> your purpose is defective.
> 
> Just because such a tool would be used for multiple computers, and even multiple 
> OSs, sort of implies that it's not just for access to a single computer, which 
> is what AUTHORIZE is.

The UAF always encompassed more than just providing 'access to the computer'. The whole slew of process limits, as well a claim to disk resources (via the UIC) was part of what was authorized.  They should either abandon the quotas all together or give them a rethink for today's clustered and networked environment.