[cctalk] Re: RSTS/E questions.

The minimum length defaults to 6; the max is 6 for passwords that can be looked up (not hashed) and 14 otherwise. The max is fixed. You can change the min by patching module OVR, address ..MPWD to the value you want. No. There was a "named accounts" A/D project in the V8.0 era, and fragments of that may have made it out the door in that version. It worked reasonably well in the development systems at the time, as I recall. But it was never finished. If any of it remained in the code, that was all removed by V9. Interestingly enough, it certainly could have been done in V9 more easily than in V8, given the new file structure, but none of that was ever undertaken that I know of. FYA, another incomplete piece of work (this one in V9.0) was "installed files". Those were files left permanently open, so you could access them without a directory search. That wasn't all that interesting, but a variant of that operation would install the file with an associated privilege mask. The idea was for "privileged programs" to be selectively privileged, just as account are in V9 and later. I got that working but we never did the followup work needed to sort out exactly what privs each privileged program actually needs, so the old approach (all or nothing) continued to be in use. I found one for V8.0, described as by "Stacken, Royal Institute Of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden". I haven't tried to use it. A logical approach would be to update it for V10.1 and hook it to the standard Ethernet drivers in that release. The original comes with a DELUA driver, and a document describing it -- in Swedish. It's clearly not the same API as the Ethernet drivers in RSTS, which have an extended set of "I/O service" function codes for use by kernel components like DECnet or LAT. So, minimally, porting that code would involve updating it to that API. I forgot where I found this code. Johnny, do you know about it? paul