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- From: terry@spcvxb.spc.edu (Terry Kennedy, Operations Mgr.)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.vms
- Subject: Re: Page and Swap File Names Missing
- Message-ID: <1992Dec12.063841.4649@spcvxb.spc.edu>
- Date: 12 Dec 92 11:38:41 GMT
- References: <10DEC199208004097@erich.triumf.ca> <1992Dec10.194951.20157@Rapnet.Sanders.Lockheed.Com>,<1g8f9gINNqe6@master.cs.rose-hulman.edu> <1ga4tjINN1o8s@rs1.rrz.Uni-Koeln.DE>
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- In article <1ga4tjINN1o8s@rs1.rrz.Uni-Koeln.DE>, moravec@NEWTON.PH1.UNI-KOELN.DE (Andreas Moravec) writes:
- > you can set file/prot=w=r onto pagefile.sys AND
- > set file/prot=w onto directory containing the page/swapfile
- >
- > here is the output from a normally priv. user (TMPMBX,NETMBX):
-
- In general, it's not a good idea to rely on directory protections to protect
- a file. In the case you describe above, I can still open the file by FID. This
- won't stop someone who really wants to read the pagefile.
-
- Terry Kennedy Operations Manager, Academic Computing
- terry@spcvxa.bitnet St. Peter's College, Jersey City, NJ USA
- terry@spcvxa.spc.edu +1 201 915 9381
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