README for VMS::User

Copyright (c) 1999 Dan Sugalski

You may distribute under the terms of the Artistic License, as distributed
with Perl.

This module lets you retrieve most of the info available via the system
service GETUAI, or the DCL lexical F$GETUAI. It'll also get a list of users
in your SYSUAF if you've got read access to it and execute access to
AUTHORIZE.

perl Makefile.pl
mms
mms test

to build and test the extension. If it tests OK, then

mms install

to install it. More info is in the POD documentation in the User.PM file.

VMS::User allows Perl programs to retrieve a list of users and get
information about their accounts. The information it returns is pretty much
equivalent to DCL's F$GETUAI function, or what AUTHORIZE provides.

This module can't violate VMS system security in any way that DCL can't, so
if you can see something with F$GETUAI, you can see it with VMS::User.
If you can't in DCL or AUTHORIZE, you can't here, either.
