The mkuser command defines a new user by creating a new
principal-name in AccuRev’s user registry. The user is licensed in either of these ways:
AccuRev operations can be performed only by someone who has a principal-name in the registry, and has a license appropriate for the operation. Each transaction records the principal-name of the person who performed it.
To list the existing principal-names, use the show users command. To rename a user (e.g. to fix a spelling error or change
cindi to
cyndee), or to change the kind of license for a user, invoke the
chuser command.
See Entity Names on page 6 for information on naming users. If you rename an existing user with the
chuser command, you can then create a new user with the original principal-name. The two users have different numeric user-IDs, and are unrelated.
Your principal-name is independent of the username (login name) by which the operating system knows you. You might be working in a heterogeneous network, where there are multiple incompatible operating-system user registries. Similarly, your organization might be using AccuRev at multiple sites. In such situations, you can (and must!) use the same principal-name wherever you work, even though your operating-system username varies from machine to machine.
Create a new user named john_smith, licensed to use both the configuration management and issue management facilities.