30 Nov
2023
30 Nov
'23
2:22 a.m.
On Nov 29, 2023, at 6:13 PM, Johnny Billquist
<bqt(a)softjar.se> wrote:
On 2023-11-29 23:52, John Forecast wrote:
Sounds possible. Maybe used in the same way as in RSTS/E? Because I do seem to remember
that VMS also can have a system password... Unexpected that it would merge information
from the default parameters with provided parameters. I would have expected it to fully
use one or the other.
At some point when all this code was originally written, I assume everything worked, so
something must have changed in VMS.
John.
On Nov
29, 2023, at 5:13 PM, Paul Koning <paulkoning(a)comcast.net> wrote:
But it still tries to login using the default account information. Probably the
ACCOUNT field is causing problems for loginout.exe. On Nov 29, 2023, at 5:06 PM, John Forecast
<john(a)forecast.name> wrote:
Anyway, I’ve found the problem! sendvmsmail (the program Linux uses to send mail to VMS)
tries really hard to put something in the account field of access control. This seems to
cause login to the nonpriviledged account to fail. I don’t believe I’ve seen any
documentation about this issue. Comment out the logic which fills in the account field and
everything works OK, even the V3 protocol is almost functional.
That seems sensible; the default stuff applies when authentication data isn't
present. "Account" is an obscure authentication field that is only used in some
operating systems, but I can imagine how its presence might make a check for "there
was no authentication data" fail.
Johnny
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