[HECnet] Anonymous FAL (Tops-20)

[Robert Armstrong]

  I've no idea what TOPS20 does, but ...

  On VMS the NETCONFIG script creates a default account for FAL called FAL$SERVER.  Anonymous access to FAL just logs in using this account and you can see whatever files are in the associated login directory, typically SYS$SPECIFIC:[FAL$SERVER].

  TOPS20 probably uses different names, but I imagine that the basic idea is similar...

Bob


-----Original Message-----
From: owner-hecnet at Update.UU.SE [mailto:owner-hecnet at Update.UU.SE] On Behalf Of Thomas DeBellis
Sent: Wednesday, July 3, 2019 5:15 AM
To: hecnet at Update.UU.SE
Subject: [HECnet] Anonymous FAL (Tops-20)

I have some software that I'd like to post, but don't recall how to 
configure FAL to allow for an anonymous connection; to download from a 
restricted directory.

I know how to do it for the FTP server (seeing as I wrote it), but ... 
different code base.

I can only vaguely remember what we did for CCnet at Columbia University 
in the 1980's, but I think it was kind of a hack.