Re: DEC system jokes

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From: Bill Pechter
Date: Mon, 06 Apr 1992 13:44

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In article <31MAR199210361943@rover.uchicago.edu> frank@rover.uchicago.edu writes:
>
>	Any Ideas for good April 1st jokes for DEC based systems?
>	One example we did follows:
>
>	DEC's IAS operating system had a very neat feature, a command of
>	"SET/CLI=..." which let you put any program you wanted up as the
>	command line interperter. Made security easier, canned applications
>	could never bomb out and give a person MCR or DCL, etc, but it did open
>	the world for hacking.

The same feature existed in VAX/VMS through 3.5 (probably through 4.2 when I
stopped working with it... but I know it was in 3.5)

The neat thing is it was the only way I could get into VMS when I wrote the
login.com from hell.

Username: pechter/cli=mcr
Password: password

MCR>

 
I miss that feature today...


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From: bill@pyrite.nj.pyramid.com (Bill Pechter)
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Subject: Re: DEC system jokes
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Date: 6 Apr 92 13:44:20 GMT
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