Re: OpenVMS resources

[Steve Edwards <sedwards () sedwards com>]

Here's a technique that I (if I remember correctly) used to recover from a
lost SYSTEM password.

Here are 2 ways to break into a VMS system. Note that you must have
physical access to the console.

# boot the system into a converstional bootstrap
# SYSBOOT> SET/STARTUP _OPA0:
# SYSBOOT> CONTINUE
# fix the problem
# MCR SYSGEN
# SYSGEN> USE CURRENT
# SYSGEN> SET/STARTUP SSY$SYSTEM:STARTUP.COM
# SYSGEN> WRITE CURRENT
# SYSGEN> EXIT
# @SYS$SYSTEM:STARTUP

# boot the system into a converstional bootstrap
# SYSBOOT> SET UAFALTERNATE 1
# SYSBOOT> CONTINUE
# fix the problem
# MCR SYSGEN
# SYSGEN> USE CURRENT
# SYSGEN> SET UAFALTERNATE 0
# SYSGEN> WRITE CURRENT
# SYSGEN> EXIT
# @SYS$SYSTEM:SHUTDOWN

It's been a long time since I've [ab]used VMS, but I think there were some
issues with DECnet that allowed privilege escalation. Old versions of
Oracle may prove fruitful as well.

On Tue, 22 Oct 2002, Qyves wrote:

> Hello all,
>
> During a pen-test I identified a machine running openVMS.
>
> I googled but could only find a couple of documents on OpenVMS, namely one from Compaq (openVMS guide to system 
> security) and one from SANS reading room (a primer on OpenVMS) that refer to openVMS security.
>
> I was wondering if anyone knows of other resources (papers and tools) that can be used when 
> pen-testing/auditing/securing an OpenVMS system so as to know places I need to look for info.
>
> Regards,
> Q
>
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Thanks in advance,
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