I'm stupider than you!! RSTS/E question

Ashley> If you're able to get into 1,2 you can do whatever you want. Ashley> I don't know what kinds of changes happened from v7 to v9, Ashley> but you should be able to do anything you need to do if Ashley> you're on 1,2 (except POKE, which you can only do from 1,1). Ashley> For example, if you can break the startup sequence and get a Ashley> READY prompt while logged into 1,2, you can do Ashley> UT CHANGE [1,2] xxxxxx Ashley> where xxxxxx is the new password for 1,2. Unless $MONEY was Ashley> changed between v7 and v9, you should also be able to print Ashley> passwords from 1,2. Ashley> The passwords are stored in account [1,1], also known as the Ashley> MFD (master file directory). $MONEY uses SYS() function call Ashley> SYS(CHR$(6%)+CHR$(14%)) to retrieve the accounting info, Ashley> including passwords, from the MFD. You could also write a Ashley> program to open [1,1] as a file and get all this info Ashley> yourself, bypassing the SYS() call and going directly to the Ashley> MFD. Of course, all of this would require you to be logged Ashley> on as a privileged user (1,*). All this is quite different as of V9.0. For one thing, there's a GFD (group file directory), and account attributes are stored there. Second, MONEY is history as is UTILTY -- these things changed to DCL command like "set account" or "set password". Finally, though it wasn't used all that widely, V9.0 and later have multiple privilege flags very much like what VMS has (somewhat better, in my opinion, but I'm biased...). The defaults are like they were before, but you can make 1,* accounts that are not privileged, or non-1,* accounts that are. Or you can have accounts that are somewhat privileged. For example, you can set up an account that can do backups -- but not restores, so that user can read files but not change files. paul