[Info-vax] TCPIP Proxy RMS-F-DUP question

[Roy Goodman]

On Oct 21, 4:23 pm, JF Mezei <jfmezei.spam... at vaxination.ca> wrote:
> Roy Goodman wrote:
> > VMS User_name     Type      User_ID    Group_ID   Host_name
>
> > CRUISE            OND           206        1032   hoegaarden
> > RGOODMAN          OND          1190         513
> > hoegaarden.axiomainc.com,
>
> > HOEGAARDEN.AXIOMAINC.COM
>
> > TCPIP> add proxy dieterv /host="hoegaarden" /uid=206 /gid=1032
> > %TCPIP-E-PROXYERROR, error processing proxy request
> > -TCPIP-I-PROXYINFO, User: DIETERV, UID:        206, HOST: hoegaarden
> > -RMS-F-DUP, duplicate key detected (DUP not set)
>
> 1- A reboot won't work. This is because the indexed file which contains
> the proxies is set to not allow duplicates.
>
> The proxy you are doing is bidirectional.  Consider the case when VMS is
> the NFS server.
>
> It needs a one to one relationship bwteen the unix identity and the VMS
> identity so that when a Unix user tries to access VMS, VMS knows which
> VMS identity to use.
>
> In your case, you are trying to allow one unix identity (206:1032 on
> oegaarden) to map to 2 VMS users (CRUISE and DIETERV) and VMS can't
> accept this because it wouldn't know whether to use CRUISE or DIETERV if
> 206:1032 tried to access the VMS system.
>
> If you read the help on ADD/PROXY, you might find some qualifier that
> makes your entry unidirectional.

Thanks so much ... it always helps to have another pair of eyes to
find my stupidity.

Now I can't figure out how to get the permanent proxies into the
dynamic database, but I guess that's a new thread.

Cheers,

Roy Goodman