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From: Ethan Dicks <ethan_dicks_at_yahoo.com>
Date: Fri Nov 5 13:17:44 1999

--- "Zane H. Healy" <healyzh_at_aracnet.com> wrote:
> >My "favorites" are BYPASS and CMKRNL. BYPASS does just that: bypasses all
> >UIC-based checking - reads, writes, deletes, etc. It's handy when you need
> >to delete a directory tree, but it's a dangerous one to leave on by default.
>
> Default Privileges:
> NETMBX TMPMBX
>
> Well, with 7.2 these are it by default.

Default for ordinary users or default to SYSTEM? I mean I turn off BYPASS
as a default priv for SYSTEM. It's _NEVER_ on for ordinary users. NB: my
experiences with VMS peter out around 6.1. If SYSTEM no longer has the world
of privs turned on at login, I wouldn't know about it.

-ethan

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