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- From: DWING@UH01.Colorado.EDU ("Leave the cone man alone.")
- Newsgroups: comp.os.vms
- Subject: Re: HELP!!! Security problem for gurus.
- Message-ID: <01GSUGEZ08J6006MJF@VAXF.COLORADO.EDU>
- Date: 28 Dec 92 17:21:17 GMT
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- Carl J Lydick, CARL@SOL1.GPS.CALTECH.EDU, writes:
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- >Yup. READALL is a terribly misnamed priv. IHNSHO, DEC should've called the
- >priv BACKUP, since that's what it's for.
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- You know what would happen then:
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- Programmer: I need to create a detached process.
- System Mgr: Well, then you need DETACH privilege. Let me give it to you.
- Programmer: I also need to use BACKUP to copy some files to tape.
- System Mgr: Well, then you need BACKUP privilege. Let me give it to you.
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- (For less-astute readers, DETACH is *not* needed to create a detached process.)
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- -Dan Wing, dwing@uh01.colorado.edu or wing_d@ucolmcc.bitnet (DGW11)
- Systems Administrator, University Hospital, Denver
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