[Info-vax] Removing /identifier from rights list

[Stephen Hoffman]

On 2014-09-24 15:08:12 +0000, RGB said:


> Oddly, an analy/rms/check returned no errors with my rightslist.dat file.

So it's not a structural error.

> (Which is indeed shared between the 2 nodes of an itanium cluster running v8.4)

Early V8.4 had various "issues", in my experience.  Including file 
corruptions.   Are you on current on your UPDATEs?

> Yet, with this in mind, I see a bunch of gobbeldy-gook when looking at 
> several user account rights id's as I listed above.  (No, they aren't 
> normal Steve.  The value of the identifier is okay i.e, %X8... but the 
> name which should be associated with the value is all screwed up in 
> some instances.
> 
> ........>....................... %X8001013C
> 
> This is a direct copy and past from a specific user account.  The 
> ".....>...." is not normal and should be an id name, no?

So that's what you're seeing at a UAF> SHOW {some_user} command, and 
not the output from some file dump somewhere?
Again posting details — background, commands, symptoms — helps with 
these questions.  (If I can't tell what I'm looking at...)

There can be all sorts of interesting stuff going on in SYSUAF and 
inside RIGHTSLIST; there aren't names with various records there.
(VMS has some record formats that it uses, and I worked on a security 
product that stored some of its own data in RIGHTSLIST, and there are 
other products that do that.)

I'm guessing no backups prior to the corruption?



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