[Info-vax] Need to set up a special purpose account

[Steven Schweda]

> If I set the ANONYMOUS account [...]

   I would avoid fiddling around with what was probably a
perfectly valid ANONYMOUS account.  Might be best to delete
it, and let the TCPIP configurator make it (right) again.

> >    As usual, showing actual commands with their actual output
> > can be more helpful than vague descriptions or
> > interpretations.
> 
> There is only one command:  @tcpip$config 

> But I cannot login via ftp.

   Apparently, you read that advice about actual commands and
actual output, but just as apparently, it didn't stick.  "I
cannot" is not a useful problem description.  It does not say
what you did.  It does not say what happened when you did it.

> I looked at the log file for anonymous.  It is empty.

   With my weak psychic powers, I don't know what "the log
file for anonymous" means to you.  I seem to have missed
where you revealed which TCPIP version you're running, but
around here there is a general FTP log file, and an anonymous
FTP log file.  I have convenient logical names defined, so
that I can find them easily:

  "AFTPLOG" = "sys$sysdevice:[tcpip$ftp]tcpip$ftp_anonymous.log"
  "FTPLOG" = "sys$sysdevice:[tcpip$ftp]tcpip$ftp_run.log"

I'd look at both.

> I even tried setting local and remote. I still could not
> login.
> 
> But I mean that I cannot connect with ftp.

   Again, showing actual commands with their actual output
can be more helpful than vague descriptions or
interpretations.  (He said, again, to the wall.)  Around
here, for example, where the stuff just works:

ALP $ ftp alp-l
220-   Antinode FTP Server.  Please be nice.
220 alp.antinode.info FTP Server (Version 5.7) Ready.
Connected to alp. 
Name (alp:system): anonymous
331 Guest login OK, send ident as password.
Password:                               [I typed "fred".]
230-   Using a Web browser and having problems?
      Try using a better and/or simpler FTP client.
      Alternatively, use HTTP instead of FTP:
         ftp://antinode.info/something ->
         http://antinode.info/ftp/something
230 Guest login OK, access restrictions apply.
FTP> quit
221 Goodbye.


   This adds the following to FTPLOG:

%TCPIP-I-FTP_SESCON, FTP SERVER: session connection from
 10.0.0.9 at  7-OCT-2016 11:21:48.99
%TCPIP-I-FTP_USER, user name: ANONYMOUS
%TCPIP-I-FTP_SESDCN, FTP SERVER: session disconnection from
 10.0.0.9 at  7-OCT-2016 11:21:58.22
%TCPIP-I-FTP_SESCON, FTP SERVER: session connection from
 10.0.0.9 at  7-OCT-2016 13:45:33.94

And the following to AFTPLOG:

 7-OCT-2016 13:45:43.94 User:anonymous logged in ident:fred from Host:10.0.0.9
 7-OCT-2016 13:46:58.40 User:anonymous ident:fred logged out


   Wow.  That new copy+paste technology is a miracle.