Yes. That's the reason it was so popular with certain government agencies
when I worked in the Military/Industrial complex. VMS was multi-level
secure while UNIX, at least then, was full of holes.
Dick
-----Original Message-----
From: Jim Strickland <jim_at_calico.litterbox.com>
To: Discussion re-collecting of classic computers
<classiccmp_at_u.washington.edu>
Date: Tuesday, August 03, 1999 1:33 PM
Subject: Re: DUMB VMS!
>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
>web page at http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Lakes/2956/data.htm
>and search for the word "password". It lists the procedure.
>
>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.
>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
>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 do not like this VMS. I like RSX and RT, but not VMS. First of all,
>> it's running on a 32-bit machine and it isn't UNIX. That's just
>> offensive. Then, second, it won't let me log in because I don't remember
>> any of the passwords. I even tried the boot/r5:1 and uafalternate thing,
>> but it still won't let me type in bogus login info. What a pain.
>>
>> If anyone knows how to get around this, please mail me back. I have a
>> really important file on this silly vax and need to save it on a machine
>> that I do backups on regularly. Then I'll be free to run NetBSD.
Instead
>> of that dumb VMS.
>>
>> ;^)
>>
>> jake
>>
>
>
>--
>Jim Strickland
>jim_at_DIESPAMMERSCUMcalico.litterbox.com
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