how to find the users who have high privilege

[Davor_7]

for example, there are 100 users, some are OPER, some are SYSTEM, and some are others...
some are in same UIC group and some are different.

i want to display all users who only have OPER privilege. how to handle with?

[Bojan Nemec]

Davor,

I dont know any elegant solution. The fastest is to do:

$ run authorize
UAF> list/full
UAF> exit
$ edit sysuaf.lis

and use editor to find OPER.
The second is:

UAF> show * /page/search=OPER

And scroll the whole listing. Lines with OPER string are highlited .

The first solution is faster and more practical to use.

Bojan

[Uwe Zessin]

Most likely there are some utilities out there, but it can be done with a little manual work, too. For example:

AUTHORIZE> list/full

$ search SYSUAF.LIS "username:","oper"

It will find all usernames and below each username you will see if there is any string "OPER". I admit that is rather primitive, but sometimes it is not possible to find a tool or install it on a system and I beleive that's better than going over the full list.


For UIC groups you can try this:
AUTHORIZE> show /brief [123,*]

[Uwe Zessin]

Hm, of course the prompt is "UAF>".
I should have used a larger cup of coffee this morning...

[Karl Rohwedder]

I use a little utility SCANUAF for these things:

SAP01_Rohwedder. scanuaf
SCANUAF> priv=oper

===========
Node: LOCAL
===========
Username: xxxxxxxx
Username: xxxxxxxx
Username: DIA$MANAGER
Username: ROHWEDDER
Username: SYSTEM
Username: VET$SERVER
--------------------------------
Records: 132 Matches: 6
--------------------------------

You should find SCANUAF on Hunter Goatley's
fileserv.

regards Kalle

[Joseph Huber_1]

Just to see if somebody has elevated privileges, do
authorize show */brief
and look in the privs column.
You see there normal,devour,system,all .
OPER in the priv list raises to SYSTEM.
For a single user, there is the freeware utility GETUAI (I think in the process.com archive), which lets you get the privilege list like
GETUAI user /priv=privsym/defpriv=defsym
into DCL symbols.
To get a list of all users, create a userlist using AUTHORIZE/LIST/BRIEF * , and loop over the list with GETUAI.

[Davor_7]

Hi Kalle

could you give me the address for "Hunter Goatley's file server"?

or could you send this tool to me ?

[Karl Rohwedder · Accepted solution]

It's here:
http://vms.process.com/scripts/fileserv/fileserv.com?SCANUAF


Since the original version is quite, I have added some new flags. I attach my version to this replay. It is written in FORTRAN.

regards Kalle

[Davor_7]

thanks Kalle

but i donot know how to use it~
i'm a new system manager, even donot know how to install a software on VMS :p

[Karl Rohwedder]

Davor,

I just noticed, that the version is rather old (2000) and misses some of the new flags, so I just added them (PDMIX,VMSAUTH e.g.) and created a new version (see attached).

There is a userguide and releasenotes avaiable, as well as a HELP module for a helplibrary.

You must create a nodelist (template in kit), which tells SCANUAF where to find the SYSUAF files for different nodes (yes: scanuaf works network wide).

Besides addition to new flags, I moved the nodeslist and helpfile to a specific directory (CNC_MANAGER), but you can either define a logical name or change the source accordingly.

regards Kalle

[Davor_7]

hehe~ that's too complex for a new kisser...

thank you all the same. :)

[Ian Miller.]

Carl, parhaps you can submit your modified version to the fileserv archive and new/updated freeware is always wanted for the VMS freeware CDs.

I sometimes use
http://vms.process.com/scripts/fileserv/fileserv.com?uaf
for this sort of thing

$ UAF :== $dev:[dir]UAF.EXE
$ UAF/SELECT=(PRIV=CLASS=ALL,DEFPRIV=CLASS=ALL) /DISPLAY=(USERNAME,PRIV,DEFPRIV)

will list all the users with privs in the All class. For information on privilege classes see the Security Manual.

To list all users with OPER
UAF/SELECT=(PRIV=OPER,DEFPRIV=OPER) /DISPLAY=(USERNAME)

[comarow]

There is an excellent third party tool called Point Secure which will provide this information as well as check file protections and all sorts of security related information. We recommend it's use at Colorado Springs for security sensative sites. It runs on the PC and reads your VMS systems.

Bob C

[Davor_7]

Hi Bob
you mean that this tool can be run on Windows and read data from VMS??

[Hein van den Heuvel]

Those tools are good.

If you have (g)awk or perl installed you can do something like:

$mcr authorize list/full
$ gawk "/^User/{u=$2} / Priv/{p=$1} / OPER /{print u,p}" sysuaf.lis

or

$ perl -ne "($a,$b)=split; $u=$b if /^Use/; $p=$a if /\sPriv/; print ""$u $p\n"" if /\sOPER/" sysuaf.lis

Or with a DCL loop workign directly on the source (SYSUAF.DAT) exploiting the following info:

$ pipe libr/ext=$uafdef/out=sys$output sys$library:lib.mlb | searc sys$pipe q_priv
$EQU UAF$Q_PRIV 412
$ pipe libr/ext=$prvdef/out=sys$output sys$library:starlet.mlb | search sys$pipe v_oper
$EQU PRV$V_OPER 18

---- uaf_oper.com ---

$open /read /share uaf 'f$parse("SYSUAF","SYS$SYSTEM:.DAT",,,"SYNTAX_ONLY")
$loop:
$ read/end=done uaf rec
$ if f$cvsi(412*8+18,1,rec) then write sys$output f$extr(0,12,rec)
$ goto loop
$done:
$close uaf


fwiw,
Hein.

[Wim Van den Wyngaert]

This .com does it. Just cut and paste it into test.com and execute it with @.

But there are other ways to get OPER. SETPRV for example.

Wim

[Robert_Boyd]

On post V7 systems you can do this:

$ pipe mcr authorize show */brief | search sys$input: all,system,oper /output=privileged_users.lis

Robert

[Jan van den Ende]

Hein,

care to elaborate on your EQU command?
AFAIK it is not standard DCL....


Proost.

Have one on me.

jpe

[Uwe Zessin]

Jan,

>$EQU UAF$Q_PRIV 412

That is not a DCL command ;-)

It's one line in module ($uafdef) in Macro library (sys$library:lib.mlb) extracted by this command:

$ pipe libr/ext=$uafdef/out=sys$output sys$library:lib.mlb | searc sys$pipe q_priv

[comarow]

Sep 19, 2005 00:11:53 GMT N/A: Question Author

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Hi Bob
you mean that this tool can be run on Windows and read data from VMS??



/Exeactly. It is a super monitor and alerts in red problems and can fix many conditions. For example it can fix quorum idssues. It warns if memory tight situations and many problems. Because it has power, it must be on the same lan on the system.

We are set up to do the anaylsis for you for a reasonable fee as well.

It also checks file protections and all sorts of goodies. It has a companion software, System Detective that sets up rules on your VMS system.

send mail to robert.comarow@hp.com for more specifics.

I'm impressed.

[Ian Miller.]

for futher info
http://h71000.www7.hp.com/openvms/system_secure.html
and on the products used
http://www.pointsecure.com/products/pointaudit.asp
http://www.pointsecure.com/products/sys_det.asp