[Info-vax] Monitor for Alphastation 500

[Stephen Hoffman]

On 2019-09-07 16:03:24 +0000, Dave Froble said:

> At one time the password for SYSTEM was MANAGER.  I forget what 
> replaced that.  Perhaps a forced password change upon first login?  I 
> doubt every new system required the conversational boot.

The WANK worm and some of the other malware that was targeting OpenVMS 
back around 1989 led to the implementation of an install-time password 
prompt for SYSTEM.


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