Re: IMCB$V_PARENT_PROT What is it good for?


Against my better judgment, I've provided someone claiming to be Richard (or Richard) with an example of how security is broken within a UWSS image constructed the way he posits.

I will not provide that example here, as I have enough work to do without giving the script kiddies more to think about.

I've also suggested (to Richard or someone claiming to be him) that OpenVMS itself need not follow its own rules for support; that OpenVMS itself contains constructs and mechanisms and calls that are not or would not be supported for use within application programs. I certainly make heavy use of a number of APIs that I wrote and that I also hold as undocumented, for instance -- BACKUP is also using one of these newer APIs, too. (I've discussed a few of these undocumented APIs at the bootcamp, and have several pages in the presentations on these.)

I have occasionally offered what amounts to an application security class at various (restricted) events, though it has tended to cause me various problems because it is basically also a how-to class for hacking into OpenVMS. Obviously.
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