DUMB VMS!

From: Jacob Ritorto <jritorto_at_nut.net>
Date: Tue Aug 3 15:03:45 1999

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
Received on Tue Aug 03 1999 - 15:03:45 BST

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