Captive Logins?

[Richard W Hunt]

The next question is, are you trying to evade your own site's security setup? Or are you trying to understand how to terminate a RESTRICTED login shell? If the former, I would advise you to not do that. Security managers get "ruffled feathers" if you try to bypass the security barriers they have worked so hard to get just right.

[DECxchange]

You can set flags = restricted and captive in the system authorization file. You can also put $ set nocontrol=(c,y) in the captive account's login command file at the very top of the DCL command procedure (or any account, for that matter, that you do not wish to access the DCL prompt).

But if you're talking captive or restricted, there's not a whole lot the account can do. It can only execute the program or command procedure that the login account has been setup to do.

If you're looking for a way to break out of it, there is no way unless you happen across a VMS operating system bug. I doubt there are any along these lines, as VMS has the highest security rating of ANY operating system.

But if you still want out of the captive account, you will have to talk to the system manager (or administrator if you're a windows or Unix type guy). Or there is a security manager, talk to him.