[Info-vax] Logical Name - remove with deassign and executive mode

[Dave Froble]

On 10/21/2021 1:55 PM, Simon Clubley wrote:
> On 2021-10-21, HCorte <hmmbcorte at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Note: tried in eisner.decus.org and even with executive mode could remove with sucess using deassign, so assuming that the environment that made the test must have some extra validation in deassign but just a guess.
>>
>
> Assuming you are not privileged on Eisner, it wasn't created as an
> executive mode logical, but it was silently converted to a supervisor
> mode logical.
>
> Personally, I think you should get a not sufficiently privileged error
> message in that case and not a silent conversion to supervisor mode.
>
> If you could create an executive mode logical that you control as
> a non-privileged user, then congratulations, you would have earned
> yourself a CVE number. :-)
>
> Simon.
>

Some years ago (many) there was an interesting upgrade for DCL request.

"Do what I mean, not what I type" ...

DCL should have kicked the define statement back as an error, since the OP
did not have EXEC privs, and added the /EXEC switch.

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