Using Novell's Login

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USING NOVELL'S LOGIN

For those of you who want to stay with Novell's login program here are some tips to keep you out of trouble, and our tech support lines open.

The last command in your system login script needs to be EXIT "batch name". This batch file will be the continuation of your login logic and should end up jumping to the menu system. This is where TSR's can be loaded.

Never load a TSR or run the menu from within a login script. Until the login script finishes, LOGIN.EXE is in memory and it uses over 100k.

The first rule is don't use personal login scripts unless you have to. The simpler the login, the easier it is to maintain. Try to do as much as possible in the batch file you exit to.

MarxMenu can be run from this batch file as a post login processor. In this case MarxMenu isn't being used as a menu but as a programming language that is capable of very powerful login logic. The batch file might look as follows:


 MARXMENU POST.MNU
 <load TSR's>
 MARX MAIN

In POST.MNU you can set environment variables, test for directories, write batch files, read user lists, map drives, or any number of things that are useful to the login process.

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