The WORLD privilege lets the user's process affect other processesboth inside and outside its group by executing the following process-controlsystem services:
Suspend Process ($SUSPND) Resume Process ($RESUME) Delete Process ($DELPRC) Set Priority ($SETPRI) Wake ($WAKE) Schedule Wakeup ($SCHDWK) Cancel Wakeup ($CANWAK) Force Exit ($FORCEX)
The user's process is also allowed to examine processes outsideits own group by executing the Get Job/Process Information ($GETJPI)system service. A process with WORLD privilege can issue the SET PROCESScommand for all other processes. Any process with WORLD privilegecan also obtain information about a lock held by a process in anothergroup using the Get Lock Information ($GETLKI) system service.
To exercise control over subprocesses that it created or toexamine these subprocesses, a process needs no special privilege.To affect or examine other processes inside its own group, a processneeds only the GROUP privilege. You should, however, grant thisprivilege to users who need to affect or examine processes outside theirown group.
HP OpenVMS Guide to System Security
Security for the System Administrator
