3 Aug
1999
3 Aug
'99
8:03 a.m.
On Tue, 3 Aug 1999, Jim Strickland wrote:
Um, while I fail to understand why VMS is dumb for not
letting you in without
the right passwords, I realise that's not very helpful to you. :) Hit the
Oh... that was my attempt at cynicism regarding silly hackers who haven't
studied their history; sorry if it was vague. I actually like VMS (though
I do like RSX more).
web page at
http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Lakes/2956/data.htm
and search for the word "password". It lists the procedure.
Tim's dec website reference got me going nicely. Thanks Tim!
And at the risk of starting a religious war between the VMS folk and the
unix folk, let me say just that VMS and Unix are good at different things.
Agreed.
VMS is much much more secure than unix, and has far
greater ability to give
users *some* privilages without giving them *everything*. This is valuable
I noticed that M$ copied VMS's privilege structure in NT as well as much
UNIX functionality. Bastards..
in some circumstances. Unix probably does get better
overall performance
for the same hardware because it doesn't have this security overhead, among
other things.
Hope this helps.
-jim
I still think I'll try NetBSD on one of my 3100s. Does it do anything
yet? I'll certainly keep the VMS 5.5 installation on one too; plenty of
disk space for both. What would be interesting would be to get the VMS to
route TCP/IP and DECNET so I can have something to gateway my RSX machine.
(Unless somebody finally did that free TCP/IP stack for RSX.)
I {heart} my vintage heterogeneous home network.
jake