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Why not stop the server service?
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VMS &amp;&nbsp;OpenVMS essentialy are the same. From a certain version onward the open was refixed.<br />
Current Vms/OpenVms still has the command.<br />
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And it ONLY affect interactive use. You still have to stop network services besides that to go to single user mode.<br />
Unix has the same, there is a state Single Usermode, that you can enter after booting a system where only<br />
the bare essentials are started (i.e. a shell on the console).<br />
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So leew's approach is the right one, even some other services might need to be stopped. Like the services that issue commands at regular intervals (Think backuschedular, cron like services).<br />

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VMS & OpenVMS essentialy are the same. From a certain version onward the open was refixed.
Current Vms/OpenVms still has the command.

And it ONLY affect interactive use. You still have to stop network services besides that to go to single user mode.
Unix has the same, there is a state Single Usermode, that you can enter after booting a system where only
the bare essentials are started (i.e. a shell on the console).

So leew's approach is the right one, even some other services might need to be stopped. Like the services that issue commands at regular intervals (Think backuschedular, cron like services).


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&quot;Once upon a time&quot; there was VMS (even before OpenVMS). They had there something like<br />
&quot;set logon/interactive=x&quot; where x is a number. Usually an administrator would set it to 1 to logon himself, and not let anyone logon while he's doing, say, maintenance.<br />
I would like to have something like that for my W2K3 servers. Any idea?<br />
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Thanks
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"Once upon a time" there was VMS (even before OpenVMS). They had there something like
"set logon/interactive=x" where x is a number. Usually an administrator would set it to 1 to logon himself, and not let anyone logon while he's doing, say, maintenance.
I would like to have something like that for my W2K3 servers. Any idea?

Thanks

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