VisualAge Smalltalk supports three levels of user validation. These levels consist of the following:
Native passwords can be used on all platforms except OS/2.
If you intend to maintain VisualAge Smalltalk user IDs on your site, you must create and maintain a passwd.dat file in the working directory.
This file contains the logon user IDs of all users and their respective passwords for VisualAge Smalltalk. The VisualAge Smalltalk passwords should not be the users' actual logon passwords. The format of the file is one user ID and password per line, with the user ID first, followed by a single space and the password.
The following shows an example of a passwd.dat file:
fred mypassword barney secret wilma hello betty ZXF6
When setting up a repository, you will be prompted for a supervisor password. As the system is installed off the CD, there is a single user defined, the Library Supervisor. You must specify the Library Supervisor's password when connecting the client to the server for the first time.
If you are using passwd.dat checking, you can look in that file to locate the Library Supervisor's password. If there is not a password specified, you may at this point add one.
If you are using network password authentication, your domain controller will need to have 'supervis' (the network name of Library Supervisor) defined as a valid user.
If you want to use native password authentication but do not want to
define a network userid of 'supervis', then you should perform the
following steps: