[Info-vax] VMS VAX and SimH VAX

[Paul Sture]

On Mon, 02 Apr 2012 15:26:09 +0200, MG wrote:

> On 1-4-2012 14:34, Paul Sture wrote:
>> It is only a release candidate, but I haven't come across any problems
>> so far.  I have successfully run the SYSTEST UETP.COM load test
>> procedure with 120 or so users (though I suspect something in the
>> terminal test phase screwed with my console terminal settings and
>> locked it out - fortunately by that stage I had TCP/IP configured so I
>> could telnet in and carry on).
> 
> So, I assume the above is also what the "SYSTEST" account was set up
> for?  (Which was one of several additional accounts --- besides the
> usual "SYSTEM" --- I also haven't seen before with Alpha and I64
> installations.)
> 

Yes, SYSTEST was traditionally used by hardware engineers to exercise 
systems and hopefully detect hardware errors you wouldn't see on a 
lightly loaded system.  UETP stands for User Environment Test Package.

Trivia:

Prior to something like V6 SYSTEST was originally created with the 
default password UETP, and while everyone religiously changed the default 
supplied password for SYSTEM (MANAGER), and perhaps FIELD (SERVICE), they 
would forget about the SYSTEST account.

And that gave you a nice way into many a customer system when you got 
called out to fix it when nobody there knew the SYSTEM password. :-)

-- 
Paul Sture