Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site ucbvax.ARPA Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!cbosgd!ucbvax!info-vax From: info-vax@ucbvax.ARPA Newsgroups: fa.info-vax Subject: SYSTEM logins Message-ID: <5182@ucbvax.ARPA> Date: Sat, 2-Mar-85 16:12:44 EST Article-I.D.: ucbvax.5182 Posted: Sat Mar 2 16:12:44 1985 Date-Received: Sun, 3-Mar-85 04:54:05 EST Sender: daemon@ucbvax.ARPA Organization: University of California at Berkeley Lines: 15 From: *Hobbit*Thanx for all the replies, guys! They pointed me in the right direction. It turns out that under 4.0 you can disable an account for all kinds of process *types*, so I just set any ole password and enabled SYSTEM for batch-only logins [like booting!!!]. It works fine, and there's no way in hell you can log in from the outside unless you can create a batch-type process. 4.0 security is *nutso*. The Guide to System Security really had me rolling on the floor at times. You can make the whole machine go off like a firehouse when someone types FOO.TXT... _H* -------