Creating a Practice Account

Make sure that you are logged on as MANAGER.SYS.

If you are not logged on as MANAGER.SYS, enter this:

   HELLO MANAGER.SYS Return

Start MKACCT now by entering the following:

   MKACCT Return

Read the information screens at the beginning of the routine, and use the instructions provided here to guide you along.

At each information screen, type Yes Return. This action scrolls to the next screen.

After you have read all of the information screens, the following question appears on your screen:

Do you want to create a new {{account}} (Yes,No,Exit)?

Type Yes Return. This action initiates the MKACCT process for creating an account.

You must now respond to a sequence of prompts requesting a name for the account, a name for the account manager, and a password for the account and account manager. Passwords are optional.

The following example displays the sequence of prompts that appear, along with sample user responses:

   Do you want to create a new {{account}} (Yes,No,Exit)?Yes Return



   Every ACCOUNT must be named and must include a manager (USER).  

   Every account and manager should have a password.  Accounts 

   and user without passwords are not secure.



   If there are any problems, you will be asked to repeat the 

   process.



   Please enter a name for this ACCOUNT: PRACTICE Return



   Please enter a password for account PRACTICE: NOW Return



   Please enter a manager name for account PRACTICE: MGR Return



   Please enter a password for account manager MGR: FY91 Return

After entering a password for the account manager, a screen similar to the following appears:

   The following account and user will be created:



   Account name          :PRACTICE

   Account password      :NOW



   Manager name          :MGR

   Manager password      :FY91



   Create the ACCOUNT (Yes,No,Exit)? Yes Return

Type Yes Return. Doing this completes the creation of the account, the account's password, the account manager, and the account manager's password.

MKACCT then asks, Do you want to create a new {{group}} in the PRACTICE account (Yes,No,Exit)?.

Type Yes Return, at this prompt.

The MKACCT process for creating groups is similar to the process for creating accounts. You must provide a group name and password (optional) when prompted.

You are asked for the name of a group and for the password for the group.

   Please enter a name for this GROUP: TAX Return



   Please enter a password for group TAX: TX1992 Return

You are asked to confirm the creation of the new group and its password.

   The following group will be added to the PRACTICE account:



   Group name    : TAX

   Group password: TX1992



   Create this group (Yes,No,Exit)? Yes Return

Type Yes Return to complete the creation of group TAX and its password TX1992.

You are asked whether you want to create (another) new group in PRACTICE.

Type Yes Return.

Again you are asked to enter the name and password for a new group.

   Every GROUP must have a name and should have a password.



   Please enter a name for this GROUP: BUDGET Return



   Please enter a password for group BUDGET: Return

By entering only Return when asked for the BUDGET password, you indicate that you want no password at all.

Once more you are asked to confirm the creation of the new group and its password.

Type Yes Return.

   The following group will be added to the PRACTICE account:



   Group name    : BUDGET

   Group password: 



   Create this group (Yes,No,Exit)? Yes Return

You are asked whether you want to create a new (another) group in PRACTICE.

Type No Return to stop creating groups and to move on to creating users.

Now you are asked whether you want to create a new user.

Type Yes Return.

You are asked to give the new user a name and to give the new user a password.

Please enter a name for this USER: BARB Return



Please enter a password for user BARB: Return

You are asked to assign a home group to the user that you have created.

You are asked the following:

   Do you want to see a list of the {{GROUPS}} in the

   PRACTICE account (Yes,No,Exit)?

Type Yes Return.

You will see a list of the groups you have created in account PRACTICE.

Here are the groups that exist in the PRACTICE account:

PUB                            TAX

BUDGET

The list includes the PUB group, which is created automatically whenever you create an account.

You are prompted this way for a home group:

   Please enter a home group for user BARB: 

You are free to choose any one of the groups that you see named, but for this exercise, follow the directions here.

Type TAX Return.

By doing this, you assign user BARB to a home group, the group TAX.

Now you are asked whether you want to create a new user.

Type Yes Return.

   Please enter a name for this USER: JIM Return



   Please enter a password for user JIM: Return

Again you are asked to assign a home group to the user that you created.

You are asked for a home group for user JIM.

Type PUB Return

Again you are asked whether you want to create a new user.

Type No Return.

This action stops the creation of users and allows you to create a (another) new account.

You are asked if you want to create a new account.

Type EXIT Return.

This action causes MKACCT to ask for confirmation that you really want to exit.

Type EXIT Return to confirm the exit.

MKACCT has one more task. It shows you a screen of information like this:

   *************************************************************

   * MKACCT has kept a record of your work.  It produced two    *

   * files in the PUB group that you may want to examine now    *

   * or sometime later.  These files contain all of the work    *

   * that you have done by using MKACCT.                        *

   *                                                            *

   *                                                            *

   * CMDLOG   Contains the MPE/iX commands that were needed at  *

   *          each step along the way to create ACCOUNTS,       *

   *          GROUPS, USERS and passwords.                      *

   *                                                            *

   * ACCTLOG  Contains a summary of the account structure that  *

   *          you have created, showing ACCOUNTS, their GROUPS, *

   *          their USERS, all passwords, and the HOME GROUP    *

   *          to which each user of each account was assigned.  *

   *                                                            *

   * To see these two files enter:                              *

   *                                                            *

   * :PRINT cmdlog.pub                                          *

   * :PRINT acctlog.pub                                         *

   *                                                            *

   * Since these files contain passwords, it is your            *

   * responsibility as system manager to keep this information  *

   * safe from misuse.                                          *

   *                                                            *

   **************************************************************



   Please press {{RETURN}} to continue

After carefully reading this screen, press Return to view the next screen. To get to the system prompt, press Return again.

The following message appears on your screen, and you are returned the system prompt:

   End of the MKACCT command file.

   :_

Type PRINT ACCTLOG Return.

The file ACCTLOG appears on your screen and shows you an outline of the account that you have created, its groups, its users and their home groups, and any passwords that you have assigned.

Type: PRINT CMDLOG Return

The file CMDLOG appears on your screen and shows you a chronological list of the MPE/iX commands that MKACCT executed on your behalf as it created your account, its groups, users, home groups, and passwords.