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From: wpe101_at_banet.net <(wpe101_at_banet.net)>
Date: Fri Nov 5 16:23:41 1999

Another dim memory, IIRC, in AUTHORIZE, there is (were) two different privilege
settings for a user id.. Authorized privileges, and default privileges. I once,
when teaching myself Basic, left EXQUOTA turned on, and (due to a loop in my
"errant" code") almost instantaneously, allocated every free block on the system
disk of a 750, thus causing my boss (sitting in an adjacent chair) to exclaim (as
the system hung!), "Whaddidja do?!?!?!"..
Lesson I learned was: $ SET PROC/PRIV=NOALL $ SET PROC/PRIV=TMPMBX, NETMBX Before
I tried anything like that again...


Will


Ethan Dicks wrote:

> --- "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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Received on Fri Nov 05 1999 - 16:23:41 GMT

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