Adding a new login to TOPS-10 on SIMH

[anders.je...@gmail.com]

Hello all!

I am just starting to get back to my ancient computing roots and decided to set up a PDP-10 emulator running TOPS-10... so far so good! I have it up and running and have enjoyed running Adventure and som other stuff again...

I have now looked at setting up telnet to the simulator and get the login prompt working but on the DSK-image that I am using for this there is only the 1,2 account which cannot be used to logon remotely!

So my question in short is: How do I create new user accounts on TOPS-10?

[G.]

On Fri, 30 Oct 2015 10:14:04 -0700 (PDT), anders.je...@gmail.com wrote:

> So my question in short is: How do I create new user accounts on TOPS-10?

If I'm not wrong, to create an account you have to use REACT (i.e. R REACT or
RUN SYS:REACT). I do not remember if it does create the UFD too; if it does
not, you can create it with CREDIR. UFD stands for User File Directory, that
is the user's home directory on the system.

HTH, :)
G.

[Rich Alderson]

You need to run the REACT program to set up new users. This requires 1,2
privileges, so it's lucky that the console job is there. There is no manual
online for REACT; typing a question mark "?" at a prompt will give you some
information about what is expected at that point.

Short tutorial:

.r react

REACT>insert [12,12]
New user name: anders
USER>password somestringorother
USER>personal "Anders Jensen"
USER>require
REQUIREMENTS>no change
REQUIREMENTS>done
USER>done

User ANDERS (PPN [12,12]) created with password SOMESTRINGOROTHER

REACT>exit

That may look a little different on a system version earlier than 7.04. Let us
know if you have questions.

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[lordha...@gmail.com]

Hi Rich, thanks for the mini tutorial. How do I add remote access privileges to my new user?

[Rich Alderson]

lordha...@gmail.com writes:

> Hi Rich, thanks for the mini tutorial. How do I add remote access privileges
> to my new user?

That should be part of the default. Create your user, then at the REACT>
prompt type "show anders" or "show [12,12]", and the access type list should
look like

Access types: Local, Dataset, Remote, Subjob of batch, Batch

If not, you can change it:

REACT>show anders
- lots of typeout -
REACT>change anders
USER>access
ACCESS-TYPES>remote
ACCESS-TYPES>exit
USER>show
- lots of typeout -
USER>done
REACT>exit

[siralanb...@gmail.com]

Thanks Rich - that did the trick! I'm pretty confused about how to set up user Quotas right now but I am persevering with "TOPS-10 Software Installation Guide
AA-PS12C-TB" Wish me luck :-)

[jmfbahciv]

Which quotas?

/BAH

[Rich Alderson]

siralanb...@gmail.com writes:

> Thanks Rich - that did the trick! I'm pretty confused about how to set up
> user Quotas right now but I am persevering with "TOPS-10 Software
> Installation Guide AA-PS12C-TB" Wish me luck :-)

If you're talking about disk quotas, you first need to catalog the disks on the
system. That's a subprocess under the OPR program, part of the GALAXY
subsystem. The installation guide for the monitor won't help you with that.

Get hold of the Tops-10 Operator's Guide and Tops-10 Operator's Command
Language Reference Manual from

http://Bitsavers.org/pdf/dec/pdp10/TOPS10_softwareNotebooks/

You want .../vol16 and .../vol17 from that directory.

[siralanb...@gmail.com]

H, yes - disk quotas! Thanks for the link to the vol16+17. Will check it out. thanks again