[HECnet] DECnet default access on RSX...

[Steve Davidson]

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Subject: Re: [HECnet] DECnet default access on RSX...


On Jun 15, 2013, at 11:14 AM, Johnny Billquist wrote:

On 2013-06-15 17:03, Paul_Koning at Dell.com wrote:

On Jun 15, 2013, at 9:19 AM, Johnny Billquist wrote:
...
Proxy access is not standardized or documented (at the 
protocol level).   I think it's simply this: the access 
control fields in the session control protocol are optional.   
If they are omitted, it's up to the receiving node to decide 
what to do about it (if the application protocol in question 
has the notion of access control).   In some systems, the 
answer is "reject".   In others, the answer is "use a default 
account" (RSTS has this).

Well, proxy is something that needs to be enabled on both 
sides for it to work, so it definitely involves passing some 
information in the packets. So it has to be documented 
somewhere. Keep searching.

I don't think so.   RSTS has no notion of proxy, but I 
distinctly remember having proxies on VMS work when accessed 
from RSTS with no access control specified.

	paul



I have a proxy from PLUTO::[1,2] to SGC::SYSTEM.   The behavior is
exactly what Paul says it is.

-Steve