OPERATING SYSTEM: VAX/VMS V2.1
PRODUCT: VAX/VMS
COMPONENT: LOGINOUT

GRPNAM SECURITY HOLE IN LOGIN

PROBLEM STATEMENT:

The GRPNAM privilege is an evil demon, allowing the user to
invoke its secret entrance for all manner of nefarious
purposes not originally intended.

RESPONSE FROM DEC:

The great wizard VMS confronted the demon, raised his great
oaken staff carved in ancient runes, and spoke the magic
incantation:
"$SETPRV IMAGEACTIVATIONENHANCEDPRIVILEGES $CMKRNL!!"

There was a blinding flash of light and puff of smoke, and
the demon, reduced to harmlessness, scurried off into the
distance.

Where his secret entrance had been was naught but a little
pile of ashes, which the wind slowly drifted into letters
spelling the words "FIXED IN V2.3".