info-vax@ucbvax.UUCP (02/10/86)
We discovered that VMS V4.n install procedure gives execute permissions to the world while installing diskquota. If you are an educational site (i.e. lotsa student hackers) and your diskspace is dissapearing to the void, this may be the reason. Since diskquota is installed w. SYSPRIV, anybody can change their own quotas. (Our local VMSnauts conjecture that this is done by DEC purposefully to sell more disks :-) In our case, we discovered this with the help of a friendly hacker, and it really did not occur to us to check. (gulp!) Perhaps VMS install should be bit more verbose about the protections and priviledges it sets up, as opposed to just rumbling like a lunatic. Oz ------- Usenet: [decvax|allegra|linus|ihnp4]!utzoo!yetti!oz Bitnet: oz@[yusol|yuyetti] FREE SOFTWARE FOUNDATION vs. EMPIRE. Watch for things to come..
McGuire_Ed@GRINNELL.MAILNET (02/17/86)
You've got worse problems than you think if DISKQUOTA is installed with SYSPRV on your system. It isn't installed on mine, and I certainly didn't add code to remove it. Seems to me that your "friendly" student hackers aren't telling everything they know...