[Info-vax] Default protection question

[Phillip Helbig---undress to reply]

In article <ib3nuf$2oc$1 at ns.felk.cvut.cz>, smithfarm
<presnypreklad at gmail.com> writes: 
> >> while its ACL is taken from the parent
> >> directory.
> >
> > If there is one.
> 
> ?? Can a file be created without being associated with a directory? 

See my reply to Jan-Erik; I meant "if there is an ACL".

To be pedantic, files can be in no directory, but not under normal 
circumstances.

> Good suggestion - so far I only have the one with all the privs 
> authorized, which I turn on and off as necessary. Good idea to have 
> another one with just READALL.

Yes, and use it by default.

> You can't readily use the system account for normal work, since it 
> doesn't really have a home directory (like root does on Unix).

It is SYS$MANAGER.  One could change it, but that is probably not a good 
idea.

With normal accounts, the LOGIN.COM etc might assume that certain disks 
are mounted etc.  I like to leave the SYSTEM account alone, so that it 
"always works", whatever state the system is in.