Proxy accounts

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Proxy accounts

Post by praetor » Mon Jul 31, 2023 12:24 pm

Howdy!

So I'm LOVING OpenVMS. It's taken it's spot in my top 3 favorite OSes. I have MQTT running on an OpenVMS server for my telco project and it's been dead reliable.

But I'm really new and trying to figure out some things.

The first is how proxy accounts work.

So I have DECNet-Plus workin, and I can do 'DIR SVR1"wfisher PaSsWoRd"::DISK$USER[wfisher]", and it shows the directory. I went into UAF and setup a proxy account with "ADD/PROXY DIOCLE::* */DEFAULT", but when I just try and do a 'DIR SVR1::DISK$USER[WFISHER]" it complains it can't login. Do I have to enable something? I did a "CREATE/PROXY" to create the database.
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Re: Proxy accounts

Post by praetor » Wed Aug 02, 2023 12:44 pm

So I got it working. I blew my installations and reinstalled after watching this gentleman'shttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8baqjXN ... ithMatthew excellent OpenVMS customization video. OpenVMS at the hands of a n00b is dangerous.

I've discovered logicals...which could be very, very, very dangerous

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