Michael Hensley ([log in to unmask]) wrote: : On Wed, 8 Feb 1995 18:18:00 EST, Evans, Kevin W. posted: : [snip] : : There is a couple of job streams that come with the VESOFT : : Security/3000 package that address these idiot prompts. One : : called MINLOGON.JOB.VESOFT which changes the message catalog. A : : user who enters an incorrect logon string will get a simple : : *INVALID* response. If you want to change it back {why?}, you : : can stream MAXLOGON.JOB.VESOFT. : These jobs have not been up-to-date in *years*, and were removed : from the documentation (I removed them myself). I *think* the : new version 2.5 of Security can provide a better solution through : Procedure Exits (you can apparently change the pro-logon prompt, : messages, even the syntax of the HELLO command), but I haven't : tried any of this yet, and I believe it will only be available on : MPE/iX (not sure which version). : -- : Michael D. Hensley | "the Internet...in the right hands it is a : [log in to unmask] | wondrous tool, and in the wrong hands it is : [log in to unmask] | an even better one." -- Cecil Adams Well maybe you personally removed them, but somebody apparently *personally* put them back. I see references to it in both 2.4 and 2.5 of the Vesoft manual. Yes, the procedure exits will allow a change of the syntax of the hello command, actually eliminating the need for hello if you wish. The PE's will work on iX 4.0 or later. Charles Leader