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From: AWalker@RED.RUTGERS.EDU (*Hobbit*)
Newsgroups: mod.computers.vax
Subject: Security holes
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Date: Wed, 13-Nov-85 18:38:57 EST
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Don't sweat it, Andy [or Todd].  Most security holes that are sent to such
lists include a fix.  Or one can be easily thought up later [through all of
us on the list banging our heads together and being creative].  Those problems
which don't have an immediately obvious workaround, such as the crashing 
Fortran thing, can be dealt with in other ways [i.e. if your system goes down,
and you discover that one of your users was running a program known to crash
VMS at the time, you go after *him* with both barrels and tell him he should
have known better or gotten permission to try it first].  I for one would like
to hear about any and all such holes, so I can plug them on my system and 
forward the info to my non-networked system manager type friends.

Having been unable so far to find any serious holes in 4.x on my own system,
I suck these bug reports up eagerly.  Keep 'em coming.  The people at DEC
shouldn't feel threatened just because someone found a problem in some of 
their code.  It happens all the time; whether it gets SPRed or sent to
info-vax, the message still constitutes a notification.  I would rather
hear about it now than six months down the road in the 4.3 or so release
notes, so I can fix it *now* instead of have the hole open all that time.

_H*
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