INFO-VAX Tue, 20 May 2008 Volume 2008 : Issue 280 Contents: Re: DEC Document FTPand SSH security Re: Need something to search for SSNs & CCNs Re: Need something to search for SSNs & CCNs Re: VAX Media Re: VAX Media Re: VOTE NOW - OpenVMS.org 2007 Readers' Choice Awards Re: VOTE NOW - OpenVMS.org 2007 Readers' Choice Awards ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Mon, 19 May 2008 15:03:07 -0700 From: "Tom Linden" Subject: Re: DEC Document Message-ID: On Mon, 19 May 2008 07:44:44 -0700, VAXman- <@SendSpamHere.ORG> wrote: > I did some work for TTI. I'll fire off an email to Dan Esbensen if you'd > like or I can forward his email to you. Please do. You might also suggest that maybe it would be a good idea if they don't want to or can't support Document that they release it as open source like Matt did with MX -- PL/I for OpenVMS www.kednos.com ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 20 May 2008 11:02:57 +1000 From: Gremlin Subject: FTPand SSH security Message-ID: Hi All and many thanks for the help with FailSafe-IP. Is it possible to change/disable the identifier shown when making an FTP connection to VMS? SYS$WELCOME and SYS$ANNOUNCE can be changed, but is there such a thing so that VMS won't display what it is when making an FTP connection? Cheers ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 19 May 2008 12:34:31 -0700 From: "Tom Linden" Subject: Re: Need something to search for SSNs & CCNs Message-ID: On Mon, 19 May 2008 10:31:35 -0700, William Webb wrote: > However, it was many, many years ago (back when they had warning > bulletins which were booklets printed on very thin paper which listed > lost/stolen cards- in other words before computers were ubiquitous) > and even if I remembered the check digit formulae, they've probably > been changed since then- even if they haven't, I would not be able to > divulge them for obvious reasons. The BIN database used to be available online, but no longer so. -- PL/I for OpenVMS www.kednos.com ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 19 May 2008 12:54:57 -0700 From: Robert Klute Subject: Re: Need something to search for SSNs & CCNs Message-ID: On Mon, 19 May 2008 13:31:35 -0400, "William Webb" wrote: >On 5/12/08, nafc@snet.net wrote: >> I'm in a bit of a bind here. Our auditors want us to scan all our >> severs for sensitive data. In this case that would be files >> containing Social Security No.s or Credit Card No.s. I've been able >> to find scripts to do this for our *nix servers but haven't been able >> to find anything for our one remaining VMS server (VAXstation 4000-90 >> running VMS V6.2). >> >> I have my doubts that I'll find anything so I'm sure I'll have to >> write my own command procedure. It would help if I could get VMS >> ports for grep & awk so I can use Extended Regular Expressions when >> searching for SSNs & CCNs. I have found them on the HP freeware site: >> >> http://www.openvms.compaq.com/openvms/freeware/ >> >> But the installations fail. Does anyone known where else I could go >> to get them? >> >> Thanks >> How to validate SSNs. http://www.socialsecurity.gov/employer/ssnvhighgroup.htm Credit cards have a check digit using the Luhn algorithm. Here are some references for it: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luhn_algorithm http://www.beachnet.com/~hstiles/cardtype.html http://www.merriampark.com/anatomycc.htm ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 20 May 2008 00:10:33 GMT From: John Santos Subject: Re: VAX Media Message-ID: AJ Schroeder wrote: > Hello group, > > I just aquired a VAX 6000 from a dumpster dive and I went to > www.openvmshobbyist.org to try and get the installation media it says that > they are out of stock. Does anyone know where I could get installation > media for VAX? Or do I even need it if I am planning on using it as a > satellite node in an alpha cluster? > > Thanks, > > AJ Based on what I've been told by HP employees in the past, if you are running under the hobbyist licenses (legitimately, i.e. not running a business system under them), it is perfectly okay to acquire the software distributions (VMS and layered products) by any legal means, including buying it from HP, the openvmshobbyist.org CD, Ebay, or borrowing or buying it from someone else. (Possession or ownership of the CDs doesn't give you the right to use the software, but the hobbyist licenses do, provided you abide by the licensing terms.) I think downloading from some cooperative fellow hobbyist is also okay, but I'm not certain of that. Putting up a copy of the kits on the Internet, publicly accessible, appears *not* to be okay, and neither HP nor anyone else (AFAIK) has done that. This is why people are asking where you are located. If you tell us, someone nearby will probably be willing to loan you a set of CDs. -- John Santos Evans Griffiths & Hart, Inc. 781-861-0670 ext 539 ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 19 May 2008 22:16:57 -0400 From: JF Mezei Subject: Re: VAX Media Message-ID: <48323554$0$12290$c3e8da3@news.astraweb.com> John Santos wrote: > I think downloading from some cooperative fellow hobbyist is also > okay, but I'm not certain of that. Putting up a copy of the kits > on the Internet, publicly accessible, appears *not* to be okay, Making a kit available for someone to download does not imply that it needs to be "publically accessible" on the internet. Since HP has abandonned new developpement of VAX, and since it no longer sells new VAXen, making VAX kits publically available for download would not hurt HP revenus in one bit. HP employees have often said that VAX customers are not interested in upgrading. So if they haven't upgraded to 7.3 by now, they aren't going to upgrade to 7.3 ever. Hence no loss of revenu at all. Heck. HP could just seed some BitTorrent site with the VAX distribution. Oh, I forgot, there is no Bittorrent client for VMS. ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 19 May 2008 17:38:31 -0400 From: JF Mezei Subject: Re: VOTE NOW - OpenVMS.org 2007 Readers' Choice Awards Message-ID: <4831f429$0$7222$c3e8da3@news.astraweb.com> Ken Farmer wrote: > http://www.openvms.org/pages.php?page=RCA2007 As a suggestion, voters should be allowed to not vote on a category. For instance, if someone had never heard of any companies in a category, they shouldn't be forced to randomly choose one. Also, if you really like 2 companies in one category, but don't know companies in another category, it isn't really fair that one of the 2 companies you really like wont get a vote, while you'll be forced to give a vote to a company you don't know anything about. It would be nicer if you could have a vote where you one could choose 5 companies and give them a ranking. (1 to 5). You would then tally the votes based on the voting preferences. a "first choice" vote would get 1 vote, a second choice vote would get 4/5 of a vote and a 5th choice would get 1/5 of a vote. At the end of the day, you could then get choose the company in each category which has the most votes. ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 19 May 2008 15:01:47 -0700 (PDT) From: IanMiller Subject: Re: VOTE NOW - OpenVMS.org 2007 Readers' Choice Awards Message-ID: <42f24f95-7510-4d89-a778-9fed5a33922f@x41g2000hsb.googlegroups.com> On May 19, 10:38 pm, JF Mezei wrote: > Ken Farmer wrote: > >http://www.openvms.org/pages.php?page=RCA2007 > > As a suggestion, voters should be allowed to not vote on a category. For > instance, if someone had never heard of any companies in a category, > they shouldn't be forced to randomly choose one. > > Also, if you really like 2 companies in one category, but don't know > companies in another category, it isn't really fair that one of the 2 > companies you really like wont get a vote, while you'll be forced to > give a vote to a company you don't know anything about. > > It would be nicer if you could have a vote where you one could choose 5 > companies and give them a ranking. (1 to 5). You would then tally the > votes based on the voting preferences. > > a "first choice" vote would get 1 vote, a second choice vote would get > 4/5 of a vote and a 5th choice would get 1/5 of a vote. > > At the end of the day, you could then get choose the company in each > category which has the most votes. This year is a sort of trial run and its all been done in a bit of a rush so things have been kept simple (simple to implement especially). You are talking about a PR system which is an interesting idea. and I can see your point about having to vote for someone in each category. However I hope these points will not prevent you from participating this year, ------------------------------ End of INFO-VAX 2008.280 ************************