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- From: kent@nosc.mil (Kent K. Kuriyama)
- Subject: Re: attach command wont take password.
- Message-ID: <1993Jan5.051323.12225@nosc.mil>
- Keywords: attach password
- Organization: Naval Research and Development, Hawaii Laboratory
- References: <D2150044.me0nk1@boomrang.boomerang.com> <6eHowB4w165w@netlan.jpr.com>
- Date: Tue, 5 Jan 1993 05:13:23 GMT
- Lines: 37
-
- In article <6eHowB4w165w@netlan.jpr.com> alberg@netlan.jpr.com (Al Berg) writes:
- >dak@boomerang.com (David A. Kearney) writes:
- >
- >> Greetings,
- >>
- >> I have a book that says the 3.11 "attach" command should allow a password
- >> in the form :
- >>
- >> %attach <server>/<login>;<password>
- >>
- >> But when I try to use it this way it still asks for a password. Is
- >> the book wrong or has something changed since the book? More importantly,
- >> is there a way to attach a server specifying the password for automatic
- >> attaching?
- >>
- >Sorry, kimosabe, no can do... the only way you can do this is to have a
- >file containing the password in a directory with the attach command and
- >do something like "attach <server>/<login> < file.txt"
- >
- >This is a bit of a security risk, though - passwords need to be entered
- >to validate user access - designed for security.
- >
- >Al
- >
- >=========================================================================
- >Al Berg, CNE NETLAN, Inc.
- >Network Emergency Response Dude 29 West 38th Street
- >alberg@netlan.jpr.com New York, NY 10018
- >Phone: 212/768-2273 x211 Fax: 212/768-2301 USA
- >=========================================================================
-
- If the 'attach' command is invoked from within the login script it does
- not require a password (assuming that the second server has the same
- password as the first). All of our users login to server 'a' and attach
- to server 'b' in this manner.
-
- Kent Kuriyama
-