[Info-vax] Installing OpenVMS alpha on free AlphaVM - prompted for SYSTEM password

[Rich Jordan]

On Aug 22, 10:18 am, m... at markround.com wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I'm attempting to install OpenVMS Alpha 8.4 on the Free AlphaVM for Linux (http://emuvm.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=5&Itemid=6).
>
> However, I'm running into a problem when being prompted for the SYSTEM password - whatever I type, I constantly get this back :
>
>     Password may contain only A-Z, 0-9, $ and _ characters!
>
> The password is also echoed back to me. This happens using the standard telnet client that ships with Ubuntu 12.04, and PuTTY on Windows (connecting to the default port of 20000 for the emulated COM0). There seems to be some mention of telnet's CRLF causing this problem :
>
> http://unix.derkeiler.com/Newsgroups/comp.os.vms/2008-12/msg00315.htmlhttp://h71000.www7.hp.com/wizard/wiz_6557.html
>
> But whatever I try, I still can't get past this step. Does anyone have any ideas how I can proceed, or what settings I should tweak in telnet/PuTTY ?
>
> Thanks,
>
> -Mark

I was using putty on a different setup last night (specialty equipment
with a telnet interface), and had to make two changes, the first
similar to how I use it for VMS.

In the keyboard setup make sure the backspace key is set to send the
rubout (control->, ascii 127) code.

With this device, every prompt I entered info into had characters in
the input buffer before I typed anything so I had to use the backspace
key a few times to make sure the input buffer was empty, then enter my
commands.

I don't know why it was behaving this way and don't have time to find
out right now.

You can check the Connection:Telnet option for 'Return key sends
Telnet New Line instead of ^M' setting also, and try changing it.

Hope that is of some help.