[Info-vax] How dangerous is it to be able to get into DCL supervisor mode ?

[Bob Koehler]

In article <es0bklFcpbaU1 at mid.individual.net>, Bill Gunshannon <bill.gunshannon at gmail.com> writes:
> 
> I realize your saying that's what handlers do, but, in this case there
> apparently is no handler.  Could someone write a nasty handler and get
> it installed?  I don't know VMS handlers at all so I have no idea how
> one gets put n place.  Now, if it were Unix...  :-)
> 

   Any user can install a user mode handler.  In principle, installing
   a mode-related handler should require being in that mode, or in a
   more priviledged mode.

   So you shouldn't be able to get there unless you already are.