Expand Configuration and Management Manual (G06.24+)

Managing the Network
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Establishing Remote Passwords
The allow-access password for ADMIN.BILL for \WEST from all other nodes is
SHAZAM.
At node \EAST, the following commands are entered:
logon admin.bill
remotepassword \west, shazam
The user at node \EAST entered the matching password and now has remote access
to node \WEST as ADMIN.BILL.
ADMIN.BILL, logged on at node \EAST, does not have the same status at \WEST as
does the ADMIN.BILL at \WEST. Because ADMIN.BILL at \EAST is a remote accessor
of \WEST, he cannot access disk files on \WEST that are secured for local access only.
Also, if ADMIN.BILL on \EAST creates a process on \WEST that attempts to access
the home terminal on \EAST, the attempt will fail because remote passwords to allow
access from \WEST to \EAST have not been established.
For ADMIN.BILL to gain access to \EAST from \WEST, an allow-access password
must be defined for ADMIN.BILL at \EAST, matched by a request-access password at
\WEST. For example, the following is entered first at \EAST and then at \WEST:
logon admin.bill
remotepassWOrd \east, aardvark
Now users logged on as ADMIN.BILL at either node \WEST or \EAST have access to
both nodes.
Remote Password Considerations
The following considerations apply to remote passwords:
•
When matching remote passwords are established at both nodes, a user does not
need to specify the remote password to gain access to the remote node.
Furthermore, the super IDs at the various nodes in a network can set up the
appropriate allow-access and request-access passwords for all users so that the
users themselves need not be concerned with REMOTEPASSWORD commands.
When the appropriate passwords are established for a user, the user can access
files remotely without being aware of the network passwords.
•
The absence of an allow-access password prevents remote access by anyone
acting as that user. Thus, if MARKETING.SUE does not supply an allow-access
password, no remote user with the same user ID can access MARKETING.SUE’s
home system as MARKETING.SUE.
•
A remote password, once defined, remains in effect until modified by a subsequent
REMOTEPASSWORD command. The following command removes the remote
password for the system \EAST:
remotepassword \east