NetNews Usenet Archive 1993 #3/NN_1993_3.iso/spool/comp/os/vms/22041

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Path: sparky!uunet!ukma!gatech!concert!ais.com!bruce
From: [e-mail] (Bruce C. Wright)
Newsgroups: comp.os.vms
Subject: Re: How can I change my Username
Message-ID: <[e-mail]>
Date: 27 Jan 93 15:03:41 GMT
References: <[e-mail]>
Organization: Applied Information Systems, Chapel Hill, NC
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In article <[e-mail]>, [e-mail] writes:
> I was wondering if there is a way that I can change my username by bypassing
> the system managers protected privliages.

I don't understand what you're trying to accomplish.

If you're asking whether you can change your process name to some
humorous quote or something, you can just do

    $ set process/name="my_quote"

If you want to set your name for MAIL, you can do:

    MAIL> set personal_name "my name"

which will put your name on your mail so that it will be more
obvious who you are.  It's also possible to forge mail, but I'm
not going to tell you how to do that :-).

If you have a system that you need to boot up but which needs something
done at system startup time, before you can get a chance to log in,
you need to look at the minimal system boot and at the alternate UAF
file boot procedures.

If you're a privileged user who wants to play around with something
like the `Stealth' program that hides your process from other users
and/or other sorts of hackery, the answer is `yes', but since you're
good enough to have been granted system privileges you should be good
enough to know what to do with them :-).

If you're trying to figure out how to break into a system, you don't
really think someone here is going to tell you, do you?

Bruce C. Wright