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| Title: | "ASK THE WIZARDS" |
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| Moderator: | QUARK::LIONEL |
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| Created: | Mon Oct 30 1995 |
| Last Modified: | Mon May 12 1997 |
| Last Successful Update: | Fri Jun 06 1997 |
| Number of topics: | 1857 |
| Total number of notes: | 3728 |
1474.0. "Open: identifying users" by STAR::JKEENAN () Mon Feb 03 1997 10:37
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Name: James T. Horine
Email Address: [email protected]
CPU Architecture: VAX
Version: v 6.2
Questions:
I am fairly new to VMS, so I hope this question doesn't
sound too trivial, but I would very much like to know the
answer. I have an account on my schools VAX computer
uses the VMS operating system. Our administration has
several programs set up to allow students to type back and
forth to each other on their respective terminals. Normally,
a student's username will be shown when he/she sends someone
a message with the 'Send' command. Recently, I have been
getting unwanted messages from a user who has discovered how
to change the username to hide his/her identity. I would
like to know how this is possible, and if there is some
other way to identify this user. I would appreciate any help you could email me. THanx, James Horine
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| 1474.1 | Contact Your System Manager | XDELTA::HOFFMAN | Steve, OpenVMS Engineering | Mon Feb 03 1997 18:37 | 10 |
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The OpenVMS username can not be changed without privileges;
some other security attack is targeting the local SEND tool.
Contact your system manager for assistance with this situation,
as most sites have strict policies against this.
There are mechanisms available to the system manager that can
trace down nefarious access.
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