[Info-vax] Login information invalid at remote node

[Stephen Hoffman]

On 2017-07-27 15:22:12 +0000, Colin Butcher said:

> Hello Ian.
> 
> Did you try just deleting and re-adding the proxy, rather than the 
> whole account ?
> 
> There are two proxy databases: NETPROXY.DAT and NET$PROXY.DAT, where 
> NET$PROXY.DAT appeared around OpenVMS V6.2 time.
> 
> If the accounts go back that far, or perhaps if someone copied the 
> SYSUAF.DAT and NETPROXY.DAT files from elsewhere, but forgot the 
> NET$PROXY.DAT, then it may be that the entries in the two proxy 
> datbases aren't synchronised.

That's a bug, and one that should have been obvious and inevitable 
given the underlying bifurcated database design.    Those two should 
not be skewed, outside particularly creative or exceptional 
circumstances.   But then the mail database has a similar potential for 
stale and skewed data, too.   There's no good way with the current 
design to deal with all that, particularly given some manually-added 
entries may not have associated SYSUAF entries and then there's 
figuring out how to manually verify the contents and the user intent.   
Which means cases where stale and skewed settings can silently accrue 
within the security database.  Ah, well.



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