Xref: utzoo news.admin:4178 comp.mail.uucp:2464 Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!clyde!att!osu-cis!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!mailrus!ames!pasteur!ucbvax!usenix!mtxinu!taniwha!paul From: paul@taniwha.UUCP (Paul Campbell) Newsgroups: news.admin,comp.mail.uucp Subject: Re: How safe is UUCP? Message-ID: <230@taniwha.UUCP> Date: 5 Dec 88 19:42:11 GMT References: <4950@b-tech.ann-arbor.mi.us> <811@mailrus.cc.umich.edu> <1555@ssc.UUCP> <573@dover.uucp> <2343@ddsw1.MCS.COM> Reply-To: paul@taniwha.UUCP (Paul Campbell) Organization: Taniwha Systems Design, Oakland Lines: 23 In article <2343@ddsw1.MCS.COM> karl@ddsw1.MCS.COM(Karl Denninger) writes: >In article <573@dover.uucp> waters@dover.UUCP (Mike Waters) writes: >> >>The first version of VMS (1.0) came with ann account FIELD, password >>SERVICE !!!!! DEC's field service got upset if you changed the >>password. >What's worse is that DEC ships VMS with a "SYSTEM" account, with the password >"MANAGER". This firm neither changes that password nor tells others to do To be fair the System Manager documentation tells you to change these passwords as part of system installation (also the password for UETP). It was always the first thing I did after installing a VMS system. Anyone who installs such a system and doesn't read the release notes and/or doesn't do this isn't doing their job!! Field Service only complained once, I just showed them the manual ... Paul -- Paul Campbell ..!{unisoft|mtxinu}!taniwha!paul (415)420-8179 Taniwha Systems Design, Oakland CA "Read my lips .... no GNU taxes"