[Info-vax] Problem with Filezilla connecting to OpenVMS

[Simon Clubley]

On 2018-12-11, Bill Gunshannon <bill.gunshannon at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 12/11/18 8:19 AM, Simon Clubley wrote:
>> 
>> BSS could run privileged programs just fine, but BSS, unlike DCL,
>> will never, ever, see the privileges of the program it has just
>> started.
>> 
>> The only way for BSS to get privileges is to be run by a privileged
>> user.
>> 
>
> Well, it's probably a matter of semantics, but a Unix Shell can be
> made to run  with privilege when started by an ordinary user, but
> that requires using a feature that has been considered dangerous and
> a bad idea (even by the man who created it) for a long time.
>

Of course, that method does have the little drawback that Brian
would need root level access in order to enable that option for
his shell. :-)

Simon.

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