topic Re: OpenVMS Security in Operating System - OpenVMS

OpenVMS Security

Jim Bradley_1 — Fri, 30 Apr 2004 16:31:30 GMT

Is there anything like a SANS guide for Windows or Unix Security for OpenVMS - something checklist-ish?

Thanks,
Jim Bradley

Re: OpenVMS Security

John Gillings — Fri, 30 Apr 2004 18:09:55 GMT

Jim,

The "OpenVMS Guide to System Security" is a comprehensive and (imho) highly readable manual. It's available on the web at http://www.hp.com/go/openvms/doc/
under "OpenVMS Operating System".

If this doesn't meet your needs, please let us know how it should be changed.

Re: OpenVMS Security

Martin P.J. Zinser — Sun, 02 May 2004 10:59:13 GMT

Hello,

to be more precise the current version of the
manual John mentioned is at

http://h71000.www7.hp.com/doc/732FINAL/aa-q2hlg-te/aa-q2hlg-te.PDF

(Btw, the HTML version is broken, can anybody from our hp colleagues get it fixed please?)

While some things will be familiar to you from other OSes (like ACLs), there are a few things specific to VMS, like a very fine grained set of privileges that can be assigned to users. Also installed priviledged images can be very usefull to make functions available that normally would require elevated privs.

If you do have a requirement for a 4-eye principle, this can be easily implemented with accounts using two different passwords for authentication. I am certain that once you have specific questions many people here will chip in with their own experience (some of us do work in security consious environemtens ;-)

Greetings, Martin

Re: OpenVMS Security

Victor Mendham — Wed, 05 May 2004 09:59:13 GMT

Anyone have a link or pdf for the security guide for OpenVMS 6.2

Re: OpenVMS Security

Keith Cayemberg — Wed, 19 May 2004 08:56:22 GMT

A Primer on OpenVMS (VMS) Security
SANS Security Essentials GSEC Practical Assignment, Version 1.3
Steven Bourdon
http://www.sans.org/rr/papers/index.php?id=604

The OpenVMS v6.2 Guide to System Security
http://www.sysworks.com.au/disk$vaxdocdec963/decw$book/dy4yaa88.decw$book

Sysworks has collected most of the
OpenVMS Bookreader ODL (online documentation library) over the past decade and put them online at...

http://www.sysworks.com.au/odl.html

Cheers!

Keith Cayemberg

Re: OpenVMS Security

Keith Cayemberg — Wed, 19 May 2004 09:10:03 GMT

Excuse me. I forgot to include this link as well...

OpenVMS 7.2 Security Essentials
by Jeffrey A. Leving
Â© SANS Institute 2003
http://www.sans.org/rr/papers/8/854.pdf

Cheers!

Keith Cayembe

Re: OpenVMS Security

Mobeen_1 — Wed, 19 May 2004 23:06:15 GMT

Jim,
May be this would help you. Its called "OpenVMS Guide to System Security" and its available off

http://www.ntrface.com/~jr/decss.html

rgds
Mobeen

Re: OpenVMS Security

Jim Bradley_1 — Thu, 20 May 2004 07:39:29 GMT

Keith, Victor, Martin, John and Mobeen -
My thanks to all of you for respoding. The
information you provided was extremely helpful - a tad intimidating - but very helpful. I haven't seen so much material on VMS in years.

Mobeen,
Thanks for the info but the links to Content and Index at that site produce "page cannot be found" results.

Thanks again,
Jim Bradley

Re: OpenVMS Security

Mobeen_1 — Thu, 20 May 2004 07:57:45 GMT

Jim,
I just used that link again and i am able to pull that url up without any issues. It looks like you are having some issues :-)

http://www.ntrface.com/~jr/decss.html

regards
Mobeen

Re: OpenVMS Security

Jan van den Ende — Thu, 20 May 2004 12:08:36 GMT

Jim,
I tried Mobeen's link - just works fine for me.

Jan

Re: OpenVMS Security

Jim Bradley_1 — Wed, 31 Aug 2005 10:54:41 GMT

Thanks!

Re: OpenVMS Security

Jim Bradley_1 — Wed, 31 Aug 2005 10:57:23 GMT

Got the info I needed.