From: SMTP%"dunham@star.enet.dec.com" 22-SEP-1993 11:30:57.56 To: EVERHART CC: Subj: Re: OpenVMS 6.0 MOUNT question X-Newsgroups: comp.os.vms From: dunham@star.enet.dec.com (James F. Dunham) Subject: Re: OpenVMS 6.0 MOUNT question Message-ID: <1993Sep21.135248.17336@e2big.mko.dec.com> Lines: 37 Sender: usenet@e2big.mko.dec.com (Mr. USENET) Reply-To: dunham@star.enet.dec.com Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation -- OpenVMS Engineering Date: Tue, 21 Sep 1993 13:52:48 GMT To: Info-VAX@KL.SRI.COM X-Gateway-Source-Info: USENET On OpenVMS prior to version 6.0, the default device protection for disks (including CD-ROMs) was as follows: (From SHOW DEVICE/FULL display) Dev Prot S:RWED,O:RWED,G:RWED,W:RWED The protection mask states that all class of users (System, Owner, Group, World) had Read, Write, Execute and Delete access. On OpenVMS VAX V6.0 this changed (by default) to: Dev Prot S:RWPL,O:RWPL,G:R,W:R Here System and Group retained prior access (sort of, see below), but Group and World are only granted read access. To return to the level of access prior to V6.0, (noting of course an consequence of doing so by reading the Guide to OpenVMS Security), the following command could be added to your SYS$MANAGER:SYCONFIG.COM. I would recommend only doing this change to those devices which are shared-resources. $ ! Restore device access to pre-V6.0 levels of protection $ SET SECURITY/CLASS=DEVICE /PROT=(S:RWLP,O:RWLP,G:RWLP,W:RWLP) Note: Prior to V6.0 OpenVMS the device access was displaed as RWED (Read, Write, Execute and Delete). Today access is display as RWLP (Read, Write, Logical-I/O, Physical-I/O) which parallels the actual bits as they are implemented. Regards, Jim +---------------------------+tm James F. Dunham | | | | | | | | I / S / O OpenVMS Engineering | d | i | g | i | t | a | l | (o) (o) (o) (o) Digital Equipment Corporation | | | | | | | | / 110 Spit Brook Road +---------------------------+ CD-ROM Nashua, NH 03062-2698 dunham@star.enet.dec.com