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From: IMHW400@INDYVAX.BITNET
Newsgroups: comp.os.vms
Subject: Autologins (was Re:  hung MicroVAX)
Message-ID: <8712110349.AA01806@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU>
Date: 10 Dec 87 13:24:00 GMT
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Actually, I'd like to see the autologin concept elaborated somewhat.  What
I'd like to have is a way to have autologin be *completely* automatic, skipping
the password.  It would be nice if there were also a UAF flag that would
prevent non-auto logins.  What I want is to fix up our operator account
so that it is automatically logged in at boot time on our operator terminals,
which are all contained in a secure area.  I've tried half a dozen ways
to do this but none has worked yet.

Maybe this concept needs to be still further generalized:  a file that
associates various login properties of certain usernames with certain
terminals, so that (for example) you could restrict the SYSTEM user to the
console, or certain LAT ports, or what have you.  Autologin would become
one of these properties, and password-needed another.  Any thoughts?