password complexity enforcement for OpenVMS 7.3-1 and OpenVMS 7.3-2

[Joseph Huber_1]

...
and in display.c: change
max_flags = 20;
to
max_flags = 25;

You can extract the 3 files from my archive at
http://wwwvms.mppmu.mpg.de/vmssig/archive/u/uaf.zip

(I did not correct the compile time warnings in the old version there.)

[Thanassis Papadimitriou]

Pretty good idea..

i downloaded the 3 files from your distribution into my directory..

but unfortunately @compile does not end up successfully to create the new .exe files.

I download also your distribution in a clean directory but unfortunately @compile did not finish again.

[Joseph Huber_1]

and would You dare to tell us the error message (s)?

[Joseph Huber_1]

If You compile on IA64 , get my uaf.zip again with these new files:
uaf.,c uafcld.cld parse_uic.mar

Save parse_uic.mar before as parse_uic_vax.mar,
I just don't know how to make .not.VAX conditional in macro32.
The only diff in .mar is to call lib$table_parse instead of lib$tparse.
(see rtl lib$ lib$tparse).

[Thanassis Papadimitriou]

Of course I will tell you.. it is not a secret!!

I have got only ALPHA server platforms. The displayed error is the following regarding your distribution.

$ dir

Directory SYS$COMMON:[SYSMGR.TEST.UAF2]

$PRVDEF.H;1 AAAREADME.TXT;1 AXP-PORT.TXT;1 CC.OPT;1
COMPILE.COM;1 DESCRIP.MMS;1 DISPLAY.AXP-DIF;1 DISPLAY.C;1
DISPLAY.OBJ;2 DISPLAY.OBJ;1 GCC.OPT;1 GUESS.C;1
GUESS.OBJ;2 GUESS.OBJ;1 GUESS_PASSWORD.C;1 HPWD.MAR;1
INIT_CLI.C;1 LGI$HPWD.C;1 MAKEFILE.;1 PARSE.C;1
PARSE.OBJ;2 PARSE.OBJ;1 PARSE_UIC.AXP-DIF;1 PARSE_UIC.MAR;1
PARSE_UIC.OBJ;2 PARSE_UIC.OBJ;1 SELECT.AXP-DIF;1 SELECT.C;1
SELECT.OBJ;2 SELECT.OBJ;1 STANDARD.AXP-DIF;1 STANDARD.H;1
TEMP.C;1 UAF.AXP-DIF;1 UAF.C;1 UAF.H;1
UAF.HLB;1 UAF.HLP;4 UAF.HLP;3 UAF.HLP;2
UAF.HLP;1 UAF.OBJ;2 UAF.OBJ;1 UAF.RNH;1
UAF.ZIP;1 UAFCLD.CLD;1 UAFDEF.DECC;1 UAF_CLD.AXP-DIF;1
UAF_CLD.H;1 WORDLIST.H;1

Total of 50 files.
$
$
$ @compile

$tran tpa$_ident,,,,uic
^
%AMAC-E-GENERROR, generated ERROR: 0 $TRAN requires symbols defined in ARCH_DEFS.MAR
-AMAC-I-ATEXPLINE, at macro expansion line 6
at line number 12 in file SYS$COMMON:[SYSMGR.TEST.UAF2]PARSE_UIC.MAR;1
.ERROR ; $TRAN requires symbols defined in ARCH_DEFS.MAR

$tran tpa$_ident,,,,uic
^
%AMAC-E-IFEXPRNABS, IF expression not absolute
-AMAC-I-ATEXPLINE, at macro expansion line 16
at line number 12 in file SYS$COMMON:[SYSMGR.TEST.UAF2]PARSE_UIC.MAR;1
.IF NE, IXVMS

.end
^
%AMAC-E-PREVERROR, previous errors prevent further analysis
at line number 40 in file SYS$COMMON:[SYSMGR.TEST.UAF2]PARSE_UIC.MAR;1

[Joseph Huber_1]

No such error on my Alpha 7.3-1 system and IA64 8.3 .
What is Your system ?
Do You have a symbol MACRO ? (show symbol macro).

[Thanassis Papadimitriou]

$ show symbol macro
%DCL-W-UNDSYM, undefined symbol - check validity and spelling
$ show system
OpenVMS V7.3-2

[Joseph Huber_1]

Since I have not really changed parse_uic.mar, just replaced lib$tparse by lib$table_parse,
try "macro parse_uic_vax", the original.

My only idea is that the default macro command in 7.3-2 is invoking the Alpha assembler, not macro32.
Try "macro/migrate parse_uic" to see if that works.

If yes, replace the macro commands in compile.com by macro/migrate.

[Joseph Huber_1]

Oh no, I see compile.com does already macro/migrate for alpha and ia64.
So the problem must be in VMS 7.3-2 macro in general or Your installation specifically.

I assume your previous distribution of uaf.zip was working, except it did not have the newer flags keyword: compare the parse_uic.mar from there with the new one. Does it compile ?

[Joseph Huber_1]

And BTW AMAC-E- messages clearly are generated bvy the Alpha macro-assembler, NOT the macro32 (Vax-macro-) compiler.
I really wonder how You were able to compile before ?