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

[Steven Schweda]

> Nevermind, I made a mistake. I had wiped out the ANONYMOUS
> account on Friday on this test system!  Of course I am
> getting errors!!! 

   Probably not the only one.

> TCPIP$FTP_ANONYMOUS.LOG;1
>                       8-AUG-1997 07:15:00.61  [SYSTEM]

   Around here, for example:

ALP $ dire/own sys$sysdevice:[000000]*$FTP

Directory SYS$SYSDEVICE:[000000]

TCPIP$FTP.DIR;1      [TCPIP$AUX,TCPIP$FTP]
UCX$FTP.DIR;1        [UCX$AUX,UCX$FTP]
[...]

ALP $ dire/own sys$sysdevice:[TCPIP$FTP];

Directory SYS$SYSDEVICE:[TCPIP$FTP]

LOGIN.COM;1          [TCPIP$AUX,TCPIP$FTP]
TCPIP$FTP_ANONYMOUS.LOG;2
                     [TCPIP$AUX,TCPIP$FTP]
[...]
TCPIP$FTP_RUN.LOG;2700
                     [TCPIP$AUX,TCPIP$FTP]
[...]


> I tried 3 passwords: guest, sysmgr, and adams 

>    [...] The
> FTP server handles anonymous FTP itself, without doing the
> usual VMS password checking.  (How could it?  It accepts
> practically anything "as password.")

   Still true.


> This is the same file with different names (not sure how
> that works). 

   I know nothing, but I'd bet that these are not "the same
file".  Try "dire /full", and look for "File ID:".  My first
guess would be that the TCPIP$* stuff was derived from the
UCX$* stuff, perhaps using BACKUP, so many of the file
attributes (date-times, for example) could be preserved.