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Conference iosg::all-in-1_v30

Title:*OLD* ALL-IN-1 (tm) Support Conference
Notice:Closed - See Note 4331.l to move to IOSG::ALL-IN-1
Moderator:IOSG::PYE
Created:Thu Jan 30 1992
Last Modified:Tue Jan 23 1996
Last Successful Update:Fri Jun 06 1997
Number of topics:4343
Total number of notes:18308

2489.0. "*WISH* Option to merge ALL-IN-1 accounts" by BUSHIE::SETHI (Man from Downunder) Tue Mar 30 1993 08:02

    Hi All,
    
    Here I go again with another one of my wishes yet again ;-}.
    
    I feel account merging is an important feature to have especially when
    a fuction within a company is merged to become one.  For example User A
    has a function A and User B has a function B, the company now wishes to
    merge the two functions and give User B addtional function that of A.
    
    What currently happens is that user B has to have two accounts there
    own and user A's.  This has been asked for a number of times since I
    have been at Digital CSC, maybe it's a sign of the times !!!
    
    Can this be put on the wish list ?  On the other hand someone out there
    may have written the routine already and we can include it in PFR.
    
    Regards,
    
    Sunil
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2489.1You can already do it in V3.0SCOTTC::MARSHALLSpitfire Drivers Do It ToplessTue Mar 30 1993 08:5315
Hi,

With V3.0, the easiest way to merge two accounts is for user A simply
to make all their drawers shared and give user B access.  If user A leaves, the
system manager can delete their account, specifying not to delete the shared
drawers.

Even cleverer would be for the system manager to change the policy field
"Holding account for orphan drawers" to user B, then delete user A's account,
then reset the "Holding account" field.  This would move all user A's shared
drawers to user B's account, thus effectively merging the two accounts.

What more could you want? :-)

Scott
2489.2. . . mostly . . .IOSG::SHOVEDave Shove -- REO2-G/M6Tue Mar 30 1993 11:175
    Except, of course, for Time Management. If they don't use it, fine.
    Otherwise you would want to merge their meetings, tasks etc - I don't
    know how difficult that would be.
    
    D.
2489.3Any other things to watch out for ?BUSHIE::SETHIMan from DownunderTue Mar 30 1993 23:319
    Hi Scott and Dave,
    
    Thanks for your reply it seems quite easy to merge the account under
    version 3.0.  Apart from Time Management are there other things to
    watch out for when merging two accounts ?
    
    Regards,
    
    Sunil
2489.4A few more IOSG::BURTONALL-IN-1 BuilderWed Mar 31 1993 09:3221
    Here's a few (some not directly ALL-IN-1 related) :
    	
    	If user A had access to other drawers, these would need to be added
    to user B's filecab.  If some of these drawers were remote, the proxy
    on the remote system(s) would need to be changed.
    
	If user A had access to restricted notes conferences, then the
    membership of those conferences would need to be changed.
    
	If user A was a member of any groups, then user B would need to be
    added to the groups.
    
    	If user A had any UAF rights identifiers these would need to be
    granted to user B.
    
    	If user A had access to other applications using ACLs, these ACLs
    would need to be changed to user B.
    
    
Martin.