[Info-vax] Force SFTP to run LOGIN.COM or equivalent

[Michael Moroney]

On 2/10/2022 7:22 AM, Kenneth Randell wrote:
> On Wednesday, February 9, 2022 at 9:25:59 PM UTC-5, VAXman- wrote:

>> Why would you want the SYLOGIN.COM or LOGIN.COM to be executed? SFTP is NOT
>> an interactive session, it's a file transfer function. The only commands it
>> can or will recognize are the SFTP commands; there's no DCL.
>>
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> 
> Thanks for the responses - as for WHY, basically I want to mimic the behavior of FTP where a login script can set a default directory for files transfers which is different than the user's 'home' directory that would contain log files which just further confuses matters.  I realize it's just as simple for the user to issue a CWD command during the SFTP file transfer session, but there are those who will simply say 'SFTP doesn't work the same way as FTP did' and it gets old trying to explain this over and over again.

I can see a need, such as when the user has some $ DEFINE commands in 
login.com to create names for directory trees they may wish to access.