[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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