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- Newsgroups: comp.unix.sysv386
- Path: sparky!uunet!kithrup!sef
- From: sef@kithrup.COM (Sean Eric Fagan)
- Subject: Re: Single-user mode boot on SCO UNIX - not a solution
- Organization: Kithrup Enterprises, Ltd.
- Date: Tue, 01 Sep 1992 06:57:07 GMT
- Message-ID: <1992Sep01.065707.1045@kithrup.COM>
- References: <1992Aug25.195455.1065@ksvltd.fi> <1992Aug28.201249.29451@smallo.bo.open.de> <la63o2INN3cg@neuro.usc.edu>
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- In article <la63o2INN3cg@neuro.usc.edu> merlin@neuro.usc.edu (merlin) writes:
- >In article <> oklein@smallo.bo.open.de (Olaf Klein) writes:
- >>Unix was designed to be secure, especially the root account has to
- >>be protected from hack attacks.
- >A small nit - UNIX was not originally to be secure. Early UNIX systems
- >were designed to encourage open access and sharing of information.
-
- So? The two statements ("unix was designed to be secure" and "unix was
- designed to encourage sharing of information") are not mutually exclusive.
- All "secure" means is that people who are not supposed to have access to
- something do not.
-
- --
- Sean Eric Fagan | "You can't get lost in one room, no matter how
- sef@kithrup.COM | little effort you make to learn your way around."
- -----------------+ -- William E Davidsen (william@crd.GE.COM)
- Any opinions expressed are my own, and generally unpopular with others.
-