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Subject: Re: VMS Automatic Terminal Login
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Date: Thu, 18-Sep-86 14:31:00 EDT
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Brent,

Your application isn't silly at all. We do the same thing for our
Stock-Room Signout terminals: you can't expect someone "wandering in
off the street" to understand how to login to the right account in
order to start up the appropriate application program after the system
crashed in the middle of the night.

The documentation for the auto-login facility is in the
_Guide_to_VAX/VMS_System_Security_ manual (AA-Y510A-TE), chapter
5.2.9, "Using the Automatic Login Facility", ppg 5-43, et seq.
(It's one of the small volumes, not one of the standard size
reference manuals.)

Selden E. Ball, Jr.

Cornell University                 NYNEX: (607) 255-0688
Laboratory of Nuclear Studies     BITNET: SYSTEM@CRNLNS
Wilson Synchrotron Lab              ARPA: SYSTEM%CRNLNS.BITNET@WISCVM.WISC.EDU
Judd Falls & Dryden Road          PHYSnet/HEPnet/SPAN:
Ithaca, NY  14853                  LNS61::SYSTEM = 44283::SYSTEM (node 43.251)