SCO OpenServer & filePro permissions

[scooter6 at gmail.com]

Okay, running OpenServer 5.0.5 with filePro 5.6.07R4

I could swear I used to have some scripts for various users on our filePro
system where it would allow them to run scripts.
but perhaps I've lost my mind (highly likely)

I have several scripts I need to add to different users - mainly for
importing/exporting files and converting a dos file to unix etc

A few of these scripts need to do chown, lp -d<printer_name> etc - but I
keep getting permission denied to run these from users menu.
I'm assuming certain scripts perhaps need to get added to the asroot file
structure as outlined in man asroot?
Is there an 'easier' way for filepro to do these things?
Also, I noticed a user named filepro gets created upon install of fp -- just
testing some things, from root, I type  su filepro <enter>
and I get  "Password has expired. Setting a new password cannot be done from
here."
Should filepro have a password? should it expire?  I've never come across
that before.

The main issue I'm running into is basically when exchanging data files from
a client, I need to import their file (something we currently use fileZilla
for but I'm looking to
do this all eventually from the SCO box), run some processes and export a
file back to them with various data, etc.
I obviously don't want people logging in as root to do these things - is
there an easier process to this, something I'm missing - or should I follow
the asroot documents and
work from that angle?
I could have swore I had some older scripts that did this type stuff under
filepro but don't remember having to do any 'heavy lifting'

thanks for any input

Scott
PDM
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