5 Mar
2020
5 Mar
'20
2:09 p.m.
On 2020-03-04 20:59, John Forecast wrote:
I think access control allows either nodename/user/password/account:: or
nodename"user password":: everywhere.
However, only NCP allows numeric addresses. Anything else needs the
nodename. But within NCP you can play using node numbers everywhere just
fine.
Johnny
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On Mar 3, 2020, at 10:38 PM, Robert Armstrong
<bob at jfcl.com> wrote:
Here?s a few more:
DECnet-RSX
Kernel interface requires a node name (up to 6 characters) so can only connect to nodes
which are in the system database.
Access control uses the syntax nodename/user/password/account:: The area.node notation, and the Phase 3 numeric
address notation, were
intended to be standard, not just limited to NCP. And indeed DECnet/E
(in RSTS) does both:
FWIW, VMS accepts all three notations too - e.g. ZITI::, 2.16:: and
2064::. It also accepts the node"name password":: notation as well.
Actually I thought this was a standard thing in all "modern" (i.e. Phase IV)
implementations. Are there systems that don't?
And the VMS parser doesn't limit the node name to 6 characters, so you can
say "63.1023::" (although HECnet has no such node).
Bob