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

[Peter 'EPLAN' LANGSTOEGER]

In article <00AAAE70.CAC7E498 at SendSpamHere.ORG>, VAXman-  @SendSpamHere.ORG writes:
>I've never enabled FINGER.  I thought it was a stupid feature when I worked
>in the DoD labs and I still do.

Is the FINGER client image only installed with privs if you enabled
the finger client? Then this is (almost) a non issue, as I don't know
anyone who has FINGER enabled. But I should check this myself...

>However, a poorly written application that
>is installed on VMS is not a VMS weakness

But it is a TCPIP weakness, and TCPIP is from VMS/TCPIP engineering
of HPQ (and you nowadays barely find a system without TCP/IP) and so
has a valid point.

>                                           and these jokers who could barely
>spell VMS if you spotted them the V and the M never made that point clear.

Yup, but don't shoot the messengers 

>
>>>Anyway, the so-called CLI bug, which was in SMG, has been patched.  
>>
>>Anyway, I still don't understand why images destined for system managers
>>are installed with system privileges, so that normal users can use them
>>as well (only sometimes intentionally - for a subset of the functions)...
>
>I don't know that either.  Save that it does permit Joe Average to have
>a look-see at what is or is not installed.

and hackers as to what images to attack (as also told in the video)...

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Peter "EPLAN" LANGSTÖGER
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