Turning Security Off on SCO Unix?
Avi Freedman
freedman at euclid.math.temple.edu
Sun Dec 17 02:12:39 AEST 1989
I have heard that it is faster to turn off security on SCO
Unix. Is this true? (For filesystem acces, especially?)
Besides, it really annoyed me when I told one of my users
"Oh, just get the .newsrc in my directory ~freedman" and
it was mode 600. It says something in the manuals about
leaving the modes at 600 for auth to work. If I relax
security, should changing this work fine?
By the way... The new HardCache/ESDI controller from Compu-
Add is quite awesome. With the cache turned OFF, I bench-
marked 750K/sec reads under DOS with my Priam 630 330MB
drive (haven't tried under Unix yet), and with just 256K it
claims (according to on-board statistics) a hit ratio of 93%,
just from read-ahead, I imagine. I'm sorely tempted to bump
the thing up to 4MB!!!
- Avi Freedman
freedman at euclid.math.temple.edu
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