Re: Question...

Zeta Gryphon ((no email))
Wed, 19 Jun 1996 14:11:41 -0700 (PDT)

> We're in the process of switching over from Annexes to Portmasters, and
> we've run upon a slight problem. On an annex, if you hit return at the
[snip!]
> return a login prompt on a return rather than a password prompt? Its
> rather essential, since otherwise we have to get many thousands of
> customers to change their software, which is nearly impossible.

Unfortunately, there's no tidy way to do this. There's the host: hack
suggested by somebody else on the list already (which may or may not
work, depending on whether your scripts just send a return or if
they're expecting that first login: prompt), which is pretty crufty,
but other than that, I'm afraid you're stuck retraining your users...

--G.

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