ADDS Mentor 2000 - A little more success/info

Dave Dunfield wrote: Dave, On this variety of Pick, which was most compatable with the Microdata Reality version, and Picks own R83, there are what are system privilege levels SYS0, SYS1 are user account levels, and cannot access system commands, or edit the SYSTEM account dictionary, which contains the account definitions. SYS2 allows you to edit the system dictionary, and therefore change the system account privileges. This is what you need to find access to to change the passwords, which are also there. The restart of the account at login state is what you are seeing when you type end at the ! (bang) sign, which is the debugger. SYS2 is also required to do anything but G (go) or END (return to tcl, or restart at login), or OFF (logoff) at this debugger. this pick systems file system is what you could call two level. the system has one "system" dictionary, which is a databas file with account definition pointers, which point to dictionarys, which define the accounts. The accounts contain pointers to more data sets, which are the file definitions. this is the only number of heirachies in Pick of this variety. So your objective is to get into and modify the system dictionary and its control info without messing up your system completely. The game you have to play is to find the places where you can get into the debugger and carefully modify these items, since there are not usually any convenient places where you can do it with the normal editor. Having a list of the SYSPROG passwords from the original owner would be really plus. Also a sysgen tape would be very good if you mess the system up. These are going to be pretty rare, and most people who would have these systems now would not be able to copy it for you. That was not a thing most ordinary pick sites could do. Jim