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- From: mcdonald@dallas.sil.org
- Newsgroups: comp.os.vms,vmsnet.sysmgt
- Subject: Re: HELP: how to stop and prevent break in?
- Message-ID: <1992Nov12.144016.49@dallas.sil.org>
- Date: 12 Nov 92 14:40:16 CST
- References: <1ds5eqINN185@merak.usc.edu>
- Organization: Summer Institute of Linguistics, Dallas Center
- Lines: 45
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- In article <1ds5eqINN185@merak.usc.edu>, ttytst@merak.usc.edu (Guess what)
- writes:
- > We got very strange things happened on one account where we found
- >the owner of files are not only the owner of the account but also another
- >one.
- >
- > OWNER=[my,WHO]
- ^^ ^^^
- Group ---| |
- user--------|
-
- If the user's numeric uic is [yyy,xxx], and there is a value in
- RIGHTSLIST.DAT for [yyy,17777777], then VMS will display the group name as
- well.
-
- > All the files and directories under that account have two owners and we
- >are sure that the other one is illegal. What we need to know right now is
- >how to prevent this kind of things happened again and how to remove the
- >illegal one from the ownership without SYSTEM ADMINSTATROR's Privilage.
- >Thanks in advance.
-
- Can't be done, since it's only owned by one person, and anyway ownership is
- always controlled by people with SYSPRV or GRPPRV. If the system manager
- wants to get rid of the [group,member] format, he can do that in authorize
- with:
-
- uaf> remove/id group
-
- >Please don't reply to this account and I am just helping them to
- >forward the mail.
-
- if you do this again, please put returns at the end of the lines...
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