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- From: smckinty@sunicnc.France.Sun.COM (Steve McKinty - Sun ICNC)
- Newsgroups: vmsnet.internals
- Subject: Re: <None>
- Date: 17 Nov 1992 07:51:47 GMT
- Organization: SunConnect
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- Sender: smckinty@France.Sun.COM (Steve McKinty - Sun ICNC)
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- In article <3638@mitech.com>, gjc@mitech.com (George J. Carrette) writes:
- > Is there a way to implement "execute only" logical names?
- > That is, a logical name that cannot be translated by the
- > user for the purpose of looking at the value, but may be
- > otherwise used.
- >
- > e.g.
- >
- > $ define/system FOO$TEMP "HOST""USERNAME PASSWORD""::DISK$FOO:[TEMP]"
- >
- > But where you would want to hide the username and password
- > from $ SHOW LOG FOO$TEMP
- >
- >
-
- Not as far as I know.
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- Can you not achieve a similar effect with a proxy login to the remote node,
- and a suitable check in the remote LOGIN.COM file?
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- Steve
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