NOVELL TECHNICAL INFORMATION DOCUMENT

TITLE:  NetWare v4.1 LOGIN.EXE fixes
README FOR:  LOG412.EXE

NOVELL PRODUCTS and VERSIONS:
NetWare 4.1

ABSTRACT:

This version of LOGIN.EXE corrects three problems: 1) The "if member of  <group>" statement in a login script will always result in a true outcome.  2) Search drives mapped as root drives are not searched if directory is subsequently changed. 3) Using the login script DRIVE command caused the drive to be deleted.


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SYMPTOM:

This version of LOGIN.EXE corrects three problems: 

1) If you have groups that are identical except for the last character, the "if member of <group>" statement in a login script will result in a true outcome regardless of whether it is, in fact, true or not. 

2) Search drives mapped as root drives are not searched if directory is subsequently changed. That is, if you map root S1:=SYS:\PUBLIC then CD to SYS:PUBLIC\UTILS, the UTILS directory will not be searched. This is a result of the PATH statement being changed to PATH=Z:. (current directory) instead of PATH=Z:\ (root directory) as was the case in earlier versions of NetWare.

3) Using the login script DRIVE command caused the drive to be deleted. Thus,  if the login script contained the line DRIVE F:, the F: drive would be deleted upon exiting the login script.

SOLUTION: 

LOGIN.EXE v4.12 PTF (950418)  Size: 314,557  Date: 04-18-95  Time: 11:59a

Self-Extracting File Name: log412.exe

Files Included     Size     Date      Time

..\
      LOG412.TXT     (This file)
       LOGIN.EXE          314557         4-18-95     11:59:16 am
       LOGIN.MSG           11333         9-22-94      2:59:06 pm


Installation Instructions:

1.  Replace the file LOGIN.EXE in the SYS:\LOGIN and SYS:\PUBLIC directories with the new LOGIN.EXE file.  

2.  Replace the file LOGIN.MSG in the SYS:\LOGIN\NLS\ENGLISH and SYS:\PUBLIC\NLS\ENGLISH directories with the new LOGIN.MSG file.


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