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From: guy@rlgvax.UUCP (Guy Harris)
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Subject: Re: SPR response (off to software/hardware vendors)
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Date: Mon, 23-Apr-84 11:15:39 EST
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Posted: Mon Apr 23 11:15:39 1984
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Speaking of amusing SPR responses, this one in the VAX System Dispatch caught
my eye:

OPERATING SYSTEM:  VAX/VMS V2.1
         PRODUCT:  VAX/VMS
       COMPONENT:  LOGINOUT



GRPNAM SECURITY HOLE IN LOGIN


PROBLEM
STATEMENT

The GRPNAM privilege is an evil demon, allowing the user to
invoke  its  secret  entrance  for  all manner of nefarious
purposes not originally intended.


RESPONSE

The great wizard VMS confronted the demon, raised his great
oaken  staff  carved  in ancient runes, and spoke the magic
incantation                                     "$SETPRV...
IMAGEACTIVATIONENHANCEDPRIVILEGES...   $CMKRNL!!" There was
a blinding flash of light and puff of smoke, and the demon,
reduced  to  harmlessness,  scurried off into the distance.
Where his secret entrance had been was naught but a  little
pile  of  ashes, which the wind slowly drifted into letters
spelling the words "FIXED IN V2.3".