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From: Steve McKinty - Sun ICNC
Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1992 07:51

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In article <3638@mitech.com>, gjc@mitech.com (George J. Carrette) writes:
> Is there a way to implement "execute only" logical names?
> That is, a logical name that cannot be translated by the
> user for the purpose of looking at the value, but may be
> otherwise used.
> 
> e.g.
> 
>    $ define/system FOO$TEMP "HOST""USERNAME PASSWORD""::DISK$FOO:[TEMP]"
> 
> But where you would want to hide the username and password
> from $ SHOW LOG FOO$TEMP
> 
> 

Not as far as I know.

Can you not achieve a similar effect with a proxy login to the remote node,
and a suitable check in the remote LOGIN.COM file?

Steve


 

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