FW: Guest Account settings

[Robert F. Thomas]

-----Original Message-----
From: Robert F. Thomas [mailto:rft at asthomas.com] 
Sent: Friday, September 19, 2003 10:35 AM
To: 'Tillman, Brian (AGRE)'
Subject: RE: Guest Account settings


The use of accounts reserved to other applications is generally not a good
idea.  UCX$NOBODY and TCPIP$NOBODY are reserved by DEC/COMPAQ/HP.

SAMBA_GUEST makes the account's purpose self documenting.  Processes using
this account are thus immediately known as SAMBA related processes.

This was only a suggestion and not a requirement.

It is the same logic for not creating logical assignments starting with
SYS$, etc.

Sincerely,
Robert F. Thomas
A. S. Thomas, Inc.
 
-----Original Message-----
From: samba-vms-bounces+rft=asthomas.com at lists.samba.org
[mailto:samba-vms-bounces+rft=asthomas.com at lists.samba.org] On Behalf Of
Tillman, Brian (AGRE)
Sent: Friday, September 19, 2003 10:23 AM
To: samba-vms at lists.samba.org
Subject: RE: Guest Account settings



John E. Malmberg wrote:
 
> I would not use the UCX$NOBODY or TCPIP$NOBODY for this purpose, I
> would use a dedicated account.  My suggestion would be SAMBA__GUEST.

Why is that?

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