Re: The Register: OpenVMS among most-secure of operating systems

From: Rudolf Wingert (win_at_fom.fgan.de)
Date: 01/23/04 

Date: Fri, 23 Jan 2004 08:25:45 +0100

Hello,

here Andrew a little bit from my life. Before a few years, we did have less
problems with OpenVMS (a few per year) and many problems with Suns Solaris. So
the Solaris systemadministrator have to do a lot of work. His job was/is secure.
We have to engage one more administrator for it. I was afraid about my job. Less
work. So I did have the great idea to install all the "do nix with UNIX" ware
and opensource tools for OpenVMS, with the result: now I have enaugh work and we
have to engage a second administrator to fix all the wholes of the secure
UNIXware and opensource tools. Come on Andrew. How was it possible to get EAL
certification. The must have closed both eyes. I do get dayly Emails from CERT
with security wholes (not bugs!!) within any flavour of UNIX including LINUX.
There are security wholes within SSH, rwrite, ... All of them gave normal user /
hacker root rights. Within the hacker contest, OpenVMS was so secure, that the
hacker could not break in within 48 hour. There is no other OS, which is as
secure.

Best regards Rudolf Wingert

P.S. There a a lot of OpenVMS WEBusers, without any firewall and no breakin.

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