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- From: bandy@netnews.jhuapl.edu (Mike Bandy)
- Subject: Re: Please, any comments on these outputs.....
- Message-ID: <BzBDLB.9HG@netnews.jhuapl.edu>
- Organization: JHU/Applied Physics Laboratory
- References: <AEAAC762B85F00024F@EGFRCUVX>
- Date: Tue, 15 Dec 1992 18:48:47 GMT
- Lines: 39
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- SABRY@SHEBIN.EG writes:
-
- >Hello All.....................
- >Hope you can help any comment or update about these outputs....ok.
- >Of cource, Our system Microvax 3400, by 12.00Mb, with VMS v5.2-1.
- >I new in system management on node SHEBIN.
-
- >2- Output from SHOW DEVICE DIA0:/FULL.....
-
- > ...
-
- > Volume status: subject to mount verification, file high-water marking, write-
- > through caching enabled.
-
- Everything looks good to me -- except...
-
- If you're not running in a high security environment, you should
- consider turing off high-water marking. What it does is automatically
- fill file extensions with zeroes. It's goal is to keep users from
- "disk scavaging" by using the following to read files that others
- have deleted:
- $ copy login.com foo.foo /allocate=100000
- $ set file /end foo.foo
- $ dump foo.foo
-
- This will pick up other user's deleted mail messages, program listings,
- memos and other perhaps non-public things. It takes additional I/Os
- to fill the extensions with zeroes and if security is not an issue,
- then it will return you a little disk performance.
-
- I hope usenet readers will not take offense to me publishing a way for
- non-priviledged users to "abuse" your systems. Better that everybody
- knows the tricks, IMHO.
-
- --
-
- Mike Bandy
- bandy@aplcomm.jhuapl.edu
- Johns Hopkins University / Applied Physics Lab
-