SCO doesn't sell UNIX

John F Haugh II jfh at rpp386.cactus.org
Tue Dec 11 23:34:15 AEST 1990


In article <DRMORRIS.90Dec10185729 at copilot.mit.edu> drmorris at athena.mit.edu (David R Morrison) writes:
>I wrestled with SCO last summer, and what amused me most was that they
>went to an extreme to make the machine (kernel/os) secure, and practicly
>ignored making a distributed system secure.

Technically speaking, there is no such thing as a secure distributed
system.  The Orange Book does not address network O/S's and once you
connect your machine to another, all bets were off.

>This is a C2 secure system?

No.  It's a bunch of stuff someone decided to market as a C2 system.
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