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Subject: VMS vulnerability (repost)
From: jimc @ e-Commerce . Com (Jim Carroll)
Date: Mon, 8 Aug 94 11:49:10 EDT
To: firewalls @ greatcircle . com
Reply-to: jimc @ e-Commerce . Com

Sorry if this is a duplicate, but I've neither seen my original
posting from last Thursday, nor seen any responses to it.

This question is directed at firewallers/sysadmins who *know* VMS.

If you're the typical VMS sysadmin, and you're using well-known
methods/utilities of locking down the security on VMS (not TIS and
friends, but perhaps commercial packages), can one say with confidence
that this VMS host is impervious to cracker attacks?

I suspect the answer is "no," and would like to hear responses from
in-the-know folks who have recovered from their helpless laughter
enough to respond to this, i.e., I'd like to punch a few holes in this
argument myself, but don't know VMS, nor the popular tools that go
with it.

-- 
Jim Carroll --  jimc @
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 Com
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