Re: [Linux-decnet-user] File name parse error confusion

[Chrissie C. <chr...@go...>]

I don't have the ability to test this any more, but the code suggests 
that passwords up to 64 chararacters should work, so I don't know why 
you're seeing a much lower limit. Has anyone else seen this?

Chrissie

On 17/03/2013 18:52, Peter Allan wrote:
> Having got DECnet working on my CentOS 5.9 system (thanks again for 
> those who helped), I am confused by a problem that I am having with 
> connecting to a remote computer. (It is an Alpha workstation running 
> VMS 7.2-1)
>
> I can log into it using "dnlogin node8". That works fine.
>
> However, if I try to use dndir to get a directory listing, then 
> sometimes it works and sometimes it fails with
>    File name parse error
>
> For example, the following commands work
>
> dndir 'node8::sys$manager:systartup_vms.com <http://systartup_vms.com>'
>
> dndir 'node8"system password123"::sys$manager:systartup_vms.com 
> <http://systartup_vms.com>'
>     (The system password isn't really password123, but it is 11 
> characters long.)
>
> dndir 'node8"system password123"::'
>
> If I try
> dndir 'node8"system password1234"::'
> the I get an error of connect failed: Login information invalid at 
> remote node, as you would expect
>
> However (and this is the point), if I try
> dndir 'node8"system password12345"::'
> then I get
> File name parse error
>
> Playing around with different lengths of username and password 
> indicates that the length of the username has no effect on whether I 
> get a file name parse error. (Admittedly, I only tried shorter 
> usernames.) It is the length of the password that seems to be the 
> critical factor.
>
> You will probably deduce that my password used to be longer than 12 
> characters, which is how I came across this. VMS allows passwords to 
> be up to 32 characters long, hence my surprise at finding this problem.
>
> Is this a problem with dnprogs, with the linux shell (which seems 
> unlikely) or something else?
>
> Peter Allan
>
>
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