[Info-vax] login information capture

[Stephen Hoffman]

On 2014-02-20 21:52:17 +0000, pcoviello at gmail.com said:

> hmmm interesting ideas I'll have to look into it, yes it is one company 
> and a bunch of users that does change,
> well I had to remove the part about interactive logins, it was 
> preventing the vendor from getting in.

There's likely something else going on with that, then.   Maybe some 
weird mode for whatever path your interactive login session is taking?  
You're on a very old VMS version, so equally old bugs are not a huge 
surprise here, too.   More to the point: do some debugging, and post 
your code.

> and we also noticed that it is asking to enter the infobelow even 
> though the info is above and you are at the prompt!
> 
> OSC$FACS1> @dsa100:[osc]login.com
> Why are you here?: Name, CCS Contact and Case # please!  testing
> 
> OSC$FACS1>

This "Enter your message below. Press CTRL/Z when complete, or CTRL/C 
to quit:" is the standard output from mail when it starts prompting.  
If that text bugs you, the following will suppress that output:

$ 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 > NLA0:
$ endif

There are other ways to do this.

I'd tend to recommend outsourcing your VMS systems here, or potentially 
replacing your VMS systems with something you can support in-house, or 
getting somebody in to write and debug these prompts for you — as 
others have stated, there are about a billion ways to do this stuff, 
and local requirements and expectations can and do vary.


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