REMOTEUSER Statement

Use the REMOTEUSER statement to

  • Enable users from other hosts to access your system.

  • Identify remote users in the USERDATAFILE.

  • Create, examine, change, and delete REMOTEUSER entries in the USERDATAFILE which contain remote <usercode entry>/<host name>or <nonusercode entry/<host name> pairs and, optionally, local-alias usercodes.

  • Associate a comment with a REMOTEUSER entry.

An appropriate entry in the local USERDATAFILE enables a user on a remote system to use a Distributed Systems Service to access the local host.

In the REMOTEUSER statement, you can reference categories of users or hosts by including the following specifications.

Specification

Meaning

*ANONYMOUSFTP

A remote user requesting access to the Anonymous FTP service

*ANYUSER

Any remote usercode

*NOUSERCODE

Any remote user without a usercode

*ANYHOST

Any remote host

The system validates remote access requests from hosts within these categories when it receives individual requests, not when it processes the REMOTEUSER statement.

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