5 Nov
1999
5 Nov
'99
3:24 a.m.
On Fri, 5 Nov 1999 wpe101(a)banet.net wrote:
As memory (dimly) serves me, under VMS, any userid
with "SETPRV" capabilities
would do it. There were some other priviledges, that, if carelessly granted,
could enable
a user to gain control of a system. IIRC, SYSNAM was one of them.
This is very true. VMS is not lax on granting prives but system managers
can be. I found it handy to enable a limited set of prives for a SYSMAINT
user that was nearly SYSTEM but not quite. FIELD was another default
account that often had high privs. In any case it is a very flexible
scheme.
Allison