info-vax@ucbvax.ARPA (10/04/84)
From: Richard Garland <OC.GARLAND%CU20B@COLUMBIA> There was a list of new features of VMS V4.0 published in the July Pageswapper (Vol. 6, number 1) submitted by Trevor Kempsell (VMS Product manager, DEC). The Pageswapper is the newsletter of the VAX SIG of DECUS. If you can hear the sound of my voice and do not belong to DECUS (free) and do not subscribe to the Pageswapper ($5.00)you should. You are not required to *like* VMS or even **like** DEC to do this. Many queries to this list would be unnecessary if everyone read this stuff. A summary of the security features mentioned in the article (2 pages out of 14): Scavenge protection - File highwater marking Erase on delete Erase on extend New Privileges - GRPPRV privilege READALL privilege Identifiers General Identifiers (interest groups independent of UIC) Alphanumeric UICs Full longword UICs Rights database text strings representing numeric values Holders of identifiers Access Control Lists Extended protection Logging of access attempts General information (in file header) Security alarms SECURITY operator class to get messages Per file alarms system wide alarms Login security Breakin detection (disable line after so many login failures) last login message secure server I didn't attempt to go into the detail of the article, hence some of these things may be "teasers". There wasn't a whole lot more but there was a sentence or 2 on each item. The rest of the article on VMS features was of course of equal interest. Rg -------