5 Nov
1999
5 Nov
'99
6:42 a.m.
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allisonp(a)world.std.com wrote:
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
Ah yes, default accounts.. Some system administrators used to fall victim to
failing to change the default passwords that VMS shipped with, ie.
Username: FIELD
Password: SERVICE
IIRC, wasn't there an incident a few years back (NASA?) where access to a
TOPS-20 machine was gained by undesireables, using SYSTEM as the account,
and MANAGER for a password?
Will