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From: DAVIDLI@SIMVAX.BITNET.UUCP
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Subject: re: user authorization failure
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Date: Wed, 21-Jan-87 11:51:00 EST
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Posted: Wed Jan 21 11:51:00 1987
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Ahem....

After sending out my previous message, I ran across a couple of pages in the
MicroVMS users manual that looked suspicious.

MicroVMS very kindly sets up your DHV11 with an Automatic Login File (ALF).
This means that whenever you try to initiate login, the system checks for a
user named USER and automatically logs them in.

However... we are not a 1-user system, so I removed the USER and USERP from
SYSUAF (gotta plug security holes, you know).  And every* DHV11 port was
trying to log in the fictitious USER and getting a 'user authorization
failure' for its trouble.

I've never used the ALF on my 11/750, and I won't use it on my MicroVAX II.
So, I didn't know about that particular 'feature'.  DEC didn't mention it
either.  Sigh.

                                        David Meile

BITNET: davidli@simvax