The WORLD privilege lets the user's process affect other processes
both inside and outside its group by executing the following process-control
system services:
Suspend Process ($SUSPND) Resume Process ($RESUME) Delete Process ($DELPRC) Set Priority ($SETPRI) Wake ($WAKE) Schedule Wakeup ($SCHDWK) Cancel Wakeup ($CANWAK) Force Exit ($FORCEX)
The user's process is also allowed to examine processes outside
its own group by executing the Get Job/Process Information ($GETJPI)
system service. A process with WORLD privilege can issue the SET PROCESS
command for all other processes. Any process with WORLD privilege
can also obtain information about a lock held by a process in another
group using the Get Lock Information ($GETLKI) system service.
To exercise control over subprocesses that it created or to
examine these subprocesses, a process needs no special privilege.
To affect or examine other processes inside its own group, a process
needs only the GROUP privilege. You should, however, grant this
privilege to users who need to affect or examine processes outside their
own group.
HP OpenVMS Guide to System Security
Security for the System Administrator
