fennell@inco.UUCP (Tim Fennell) (12/15/87)
I need to find a VMS utility that will allow me to
validate a User ID and password. The application
I plan to use this is in a FTP server. The server
needs to validate a user's password and then
perform access control according to the new user's
or client's privileges. I can't find a SYS$ or LIB$
funtion that will help. If anybody knows of a way
please, help!!
Thanks ahead of time.
Tim Fennell
McDonnell Douglas/Inco Inc.fwb@siemens.UUCP (Frederic W. Brehm) (12/17/87)
In article <1288@inco.UUCP> fennell@inco.UUCP (Tim Fennell) writes: > > I need to find a VMS utility that will allow me to > validate a User ID and password. > ... I can't find a SYS$ or LIB$ > funtion that will help. If anybody knows of a way > please, help!! DEC has nothing in the libraries to help you. I had the same need and called DEC software support. Their response was "We do not support this, and never will, because it is a possible security loophole." The guy mentioned that some recent DECUS VAXSIG tape had some user software which would do the job. I did not follow this up because I don't want to support that software when DEC changes their encryption algorithm. If there is software for this on a SIG tape, perhaps some kind person can post it. Fred ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Frederic W. Brehm Siemens Research and Technology Laboratories 105 College Road East Princeton, NJ 08540 (609) 734-3336 uucp: ihnp4!princeton!siemens!fwb or astrovax!siemens!fwb CSNet: fwb@siemens.com ARPA(?): fwb%siemens.com@RELAY.CS.NET "From there to here, from here to there, funny things are everywhere." - Dr. Seuss