[Info-vax] login information capture

[Joukj]

Stephen Hoffman wrote:
> On 2014-02-18 14:59:18 +0000, pcoviello at gmail.com said:
> 
>> we would like to be able to look at a file and see who has logged in 
>> from a vendor site using a generic account.  we would be looking for 
>> something  where the support person has to put in their name and 
>> reason for being there, I'm hoping someone has done this already.
> 
> Mark the login as RESTRICTED (to prevent bypassing the prompt) and use 
> READ/PROMPT="Why are you here today? " in the LOGIN.COM, and append it 
> to a text file, or mail it to a recipient.    If you wanted to get 
> fancy, conditionalize the prompt to display only when in INTERACTIVE 
> mode, and not in NETWORK, BATCH or OTHER.
> 
> Here you go:
> 
> $ if f$mode() .eqs. "INTERACTIVE"
> $ then
> $   read/prompt="Why are you here? " sys$command reason
> $   pipe (write sys$output "Reason specified: " + reason ; show 
> logical/job sys$rem* ) | mail/subj="Vendor login notification" SYS$PIPE: 
> VMSUSERTONOTIFY
> $ endif
> 
> 
> 
I normally use INQUIRE instead of READ/PROMPT
Are there advantages/disadvantages for either of the methods?