[Info-vax] Why is INSTALL.EXE privileged?

Howard S Shubs howard at shubs.net
Sat Feb 12 14:57:14 EST 2011


In article <4d56c01b$1 at news.langstoeger.at>,
 peter at langstoeger.at (Peter 'EPLAN' LANGSTOeGER) wrote:

> The nice (youtube) video on openvmshobbyist.org reminded me of a question I
> had (in the 80ies and) long forgotten:
> 
> Why is INSTALL.EXE installed with privileges?

INSTALL changes system structures.  It makes images "known".  It can 
give those images privileges.

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