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From: rcb@rti-sel.UUCP
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Subject: Re: Login failures on MicroVax
Message-ID: <8510211316.AA02154@rti-sel>
Date: Mon, 21-Oct-85 09:16:16 EDT
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In article <8510180700.AA03189@UCB-VAX> you write:
>Very puzzling.  We have a new MicroVax II that we have just hooked
>up.  Everything is set up, but when we hooked a terminal to TXA0:
>and tried to log in, it gives the SYS$WELCOME message and then
>says "User Authorization Failure" without ever prompting for the
>Username:.  I can COPY to and from the terminal just fine, and can
>SPAWN/INPUT=TXA0:/OUTPUT=TXA0:/NOWAIT from the system console.
>Just can't log in.  Enabling logfailure auditing says that there
>is no such user as <login>.  Any ideas, anyone?
>
>Thanx
>Stew

Micro vms comes with the automatic login stuff turned on. You must turn these
off. Just delete sysalf.dat (i think that is the correct file name) in
sys$system.


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