Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!decvax!ucbvax!CITHEX.CALTECH.EDU!carl From: carl@CITHEX.CALTECH.EDU.UUCP Newsgroups: mod.computers.vax Subject: Re: VMS Virtual Terminal Security Considerations Message-ID: <861215124424.0a7@CitHex.Caltech.Edu> Date: Mon, 15-Dec-86 15:47:27 EST Article-I.D.: CitHex.861215124424.0a7 Posted: Mon Dec 15 15:47:27 1986 Date-Received: Wed, 17-Dec-86 07:02:43 EST Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Organization: The ARPA Internet Lines: 6 Approved: info-vax@sri-kl.arpa No! You are WRONG. There is one MAJOR disadvantage to system security in using virtual terminals, vis.: if a job is logged in on a virtual terminal, the accounting information for that job always points to the virtual terminal, not to the physical terminal (anybody from DEC listening?). Without the pointer to the physical terminal, it is difficult (if not impossible) to figure out where attacks that succeed in logging in are coming from.