[HECnet] Anonymous FAL (Tops-20)

[Robert Armstrong]

> Johnny Billquist <bqt at softjar.se> wrote:
>NETACP in RSX (and I suspect VMS) is just the process/program that 
>implements a lot of the DECnet protocols. It is actually pretty much not 
<related to anything here.

  When somebody tries to connect to, say, FAL, it's NETACP that receives the incoming connection request.  NETACP creates a process and runs FAL in that process to handle the rest of the job, BUT since NETACP creates the process it's also the one that decides what username to use and logs in the process (if necessary).  It's the one that handles the default account; FAL doesn't have to worry about that.

Bob