UNIX accounting by project

[Chris Lewis]

In article <671 at ncr-mpd.FtCollins.NCR.COM> csvisys%cad at MCC.COM (Susan Davis) writes:

|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.

Create a groupid for each project.  Then, each user need only change group
to the appropriate group (with newgroup) whilst working on the project.
I believe that it's relatively easy to get standard System V to report
per-group rather than per-user.
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