Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!mnetor!seismo!lll-crg!mordor!sri-spam!nike!ucbcad!ucbvax!GRINNELL.MAILNET!McGuire_Ed From: McGuire_Ed@GRINNELL.MAILNET Newsgroups: mod.computers.vax Subject: VMS Automatic Terminal Login Message-ID: <8609200310.AA26570@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU> Date: Mon, 15-Sep-86 15:44:00 EDT Article-I.D.: ucbvax.8609200310.AA26570 Posted: Mon Sep 15 15:44:00 1986 Date-Received: Sat, 20-Sep-86 03:48:35 EDT Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Organization: The ARPA Internet Lines: 20 Approved: info-vax@sri-kl.arpa >Date: Fri, 12 Sep 1986 14:10 EDT >From: Brent Sterner >Subject: VMS Automatic Terminal Login >To: INFO-VAX-SUBMIT > > This may sound a bit silly, but we have some applications for our >VAX that could use an automatic logon facility. For example, a secure >line to our phone system switchboard office might allow our operators >to just turn on their terminal, type a or two, and be >automatically logged on their account. (From there the LOGIN.COM for >automatically logged on their account. (From there the LOGIN.COM for >the account could start up the database program they require.) > Is there such a facility in VMS? TOPS-10 provides the base for this >throught INITIA, which runs on every line as connections occur. Any >suggestions? There is an auto logon facility in VMS. The program SYS$MANAGER:ALFMAINT.COM maintains a file called SYS$SYSTEM:SYSALF.DAT, which contains terminal ids and associated usernames. LOGINOUT looks at SYSALF and does the dirty work. I do not know where (or whether) it is documented.