JOHNC%CAD2.DECnet@GE-CRD.ARPA.UUCP (02/18/87)
Subject: Re: Password Verification via DECnet kludge >> 1) It's harder to keep the innards of the verification command procedure >> secret since you can still enter 'F$VERIFY(1) at the $INQUIRE prompt and >> turn on verify mode. Another reason to use $READ instead - you don't need a >> $SET NOVERIFY after each one. That is a really grand trick - very startling to see it the first time, particularly when a user shows it to you! Note though that VERIFY does no good without read access to the command procedure. If you make all public command procedures Execute access only then the F$VER trick doesn't work. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- "Under capitalism man exploits man, John Child while under communism it's the GE Aircraft Engines other way around" Lynn MA