Date: Thu, 24 Oct 1996 17:36:47 -0700 (PDT) From: Brian Beattie <beattie@aracnet.com> To: Softweyr LLC <softweyr@xmission.com> Cc: Garrett Wollman <wollman@lcs.mit.edu>, security@FreeBSD.ORG, Softweyr LLC <softweyr@xmission.xmission.com> Subject: Re: Any FreeBSD security topics of interest? Message-ID: <Pine.NEB.3.95.961024173111.237A-100000@eris.beattie.aracnet.com> In-Reply-To: <199610242310.RAA01706@xmission.xmission.com>
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-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- On Thu, 24 Oct 1996, Softweyr LLC wrote: > > The AFS model does show that we can implement more semantics that just > read, write, and execute however. The overlaid semantics of rwx and > sticky on directories could be eliminated by adding a 'delete' privilege > to the file ACL, like VMS has. > > Lotsa design work to be done on this project, eh? ;^) > > Having implemented ACL's for UNIX and UNIX-like systems twice and worked with a third, I consider them to be a waste of time and resources. :-). I would put more effort into understanding the weaknesses of systems than in adopting band-aids developed for other systems. I think that the UNIX permissions as they stand are sufficent. Brian Beattie | From an MIT job ad "Applicants must also have http://www.aracnet.com/~beattie | extensive knowledge of UNIX, although they beattie@aracnet.com | should have sufficently good programming taste Fax (503)331-8186 | to not consider this an achievement." -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6.2 iQCVAwUBMnALiVQwtztGaITFAQEg8gQAyvJs90bu+7UNPz6O0NWA5aFzOf/EzZMN Qf5z6bDjKzeP1ALuZiwIqWiniFZsDnzxwbTduMEAnpKCyIMl0jlDeF4d+stXykeX NGl8CaNcVjRfQQ5T2jSTuWQunbdPiiYlQO2FmgcBvf7JP9QwyxK3XrSkgr7Y3+FH +eesb1jyQdY= =LCYg -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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