UNIX accounting by project

[Susan Davis]

I need help with UNIX accounting.  We need to be able to do project level
accounting on our Sun/Solbourne network.  It is possible that a user could
work on several projects during a given time frame.  We do not want to 
force the users to use separate accounts for each project however it would be 
acceptable for the user the run a "change" script when they needed to change the
project used during any login session.

My understanding of the UNIX accounting software is that it can report CPU
usage by process or username.  My question is, does anyone know how I can
associate the CPU of usera to the several projects he may have worked on 
during the accounting period?

One idea I thought of was to have an entry in the passwd file for each user 
and each of his projects.  So if usera worked on projectb and projectc each
of these entries in the passwd file would point to the same home directory.
I tried this with each account (usera, projectb and projectc) having the same
UID and GID --- This resulted in the default user being whichever account
was first in the passwd file regardless of which username I used to login.
I also tried this with unique UIDs --- This caused access and protection
problems.  Is there anyway to have a "group" owned account with several
users having access to the group files?  

I am not the most experienced UNIX user so any suggestions on my accounting
problems would be most appreciated!!  Thanks!

 
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