UNIX and security <was: Unix & X-Windows on 386SX>

[Paul Nash]

Thus spake richard at pegasus.com (Richard Foulk):

> >	I do find it telling that the first C2 certified system (Gould) and
> >the first B1 certified system (System V/MLS) were UNIX systems.
>
> What's so telling about Unix having something added to it before other
> operating systems?  Name another OS where source code is available.

Try IBM's VM/SP.  This is (was last time I saw it) _distributed_ as
source code (/370 assembler, but it is source).  It is also _far_ 
less secure (in terms of ease of beak-in) and far more difficult to
administer than _any_ *nix that I have encountered (including early
Xenix's).

Spake lance at unigold.UUCP (Lance Ellinghouse):

> I am sick and tired of hearing everyone say SCO's C2
> is not worth anything... Here is an example of someplace
> it *DID* help...
> 
> Over the next week or two, we had the line locked/disabled
> by C2 every couple days... Finnaly it stopped for no reason.

The last VM I worked on (VM/SP 4, circa 1988) also had this charming
feature, and it didn't have C2 security!  Maybe you should rather
buy an IBM lameframe, and you can have dead dial-ups most of the
time :->.


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