[HECnet] NETMAPPER login attempts?

[Zane Healy]

On Aug 22, 2020, at 1:27 PM, Johnny Billquist <bqt at softjar.se> wrote:
> 
> On 2020-08-22 19:09, Paul Koning wrote:
>> Apparently VMS treats DECnet object authentication failure as login failure, which is faintly sensible since they use the same authentication scheme (username/password).
> 
> Sure. In some sense. But I do find it slightly misleading to see a login failure, when in fact it was access to an object over DECnet that was happening.
> 
> The mechanism as such is the same in RSX, and I would assume also RSTS/E.
> You make use of the same user database, along with associated passwords.
> 
>  Johnny

Then I wonder if this is behavior that changed between VAX/VMS 5.5-2 and OpenVMS 7.3.  They’re all running DECnet Phase IV.

Zane


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