5 Mar
2020
5 Mar
'20
6:01 p.m.
On Mar 5, 2020, at 8:09 AM, Johnny Billquist <bqt
at softjar.se> wrote:
On 2020-03-04 20:59, John Forecast wrote:
I think access control allows either nodename/user/password/account:: or
nodename"user password":: everywhere.
Yes, you?re right. I don?t remember ever using the quote format.
John.
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
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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