C2 secure systems and the superuser

Miles ONeal meo at Dixie.Com
Mon Mar 18 14:39:47 AEST 1991


Tom Christiansen writes:
|... The C2 folks seem to think a system is
|more secure this way, but I see it as having N accounts to try to
|find holes into rather than just one.  This makes it easier for
|the cracker...

Statistically, yes. If done well, though, the cracker has
less chance of gaining anything like absolute power. Get
in, yes. Be able to become even a demigod, no.



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