[Info-vax] Problem with Filezilla connecting to OpenVMS

[Bill Gunshannon]

On 12/11/18 7:30 AM, VAXman- at SendSpamHere.ORG wrote:
> In article <punskp$di9$1 at dont-email.me>, Simon Clubley <clubley at remove_me.eisner.decus.org-Earth.UFP> writes:
>> On 2018-12-10, Kerry Main <kemain.nospam at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> The very high number of commodity OS security patches (not bugs, but
>>> security issues) released each and every month is fact. Surely you do not
>>> dispute this?
>>>
>>
>> Once again, you ignore _why_ the number of security issues are higher
>> on other platforms.
>>
>>>
>>> Having stated this, every platform is different and yes,
>>> while some issues are common, many are not.
>>>
>>
>> That's certainly true. For example, VMS has security weaknesses that
>> other operating systems do not, such as a privileged shell.
> 
> Other OSs don't have a privileged shell?
> 
> 

I'll have to agree with Simon on this one, no, none I have
worked on had a privileged shell, except Unix but then only
when in use by  a logged in privileged user. :-)

bill