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- From: smee@bristol.ac.uk (Paul Smee)
- Newsgroups: alt.config,alt.folklore.computers
- Subject: Re: alt.fan.multics, any interest in a Multics (OS) newsgroup?
- Message-ID: <1992Dec24.103055.11138@bristol.ac.uk>
- Date: 24 Dec 92 10:30:55 GMT
- References: <FAIGIN.92Dec22122212@soldan.aero.org> <1992Dec23.103322.26752@bristol.ac.uk> <FAIGIN.92Dec23110259@soldan.aero.org>
- Reply-To: P.Smee@bristol.ac.uk (Paul Smee)
- Organization: University of Bristol
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- In article <FAIGIN.92Dec23110259@soldan.aero.org> faigin@aero.org (Daniel P. Faigin) writes:
- >On 23 Dec 92 10:33:22 GMT, smee@bristol.ac.uk (Paul Smee) said:
- >> You lucky b*****d. Given that I expect there's about a 0% (more or
- >> less) probability of my ever seeing a Multics box again
- >
- >Actually, if you got in the Computer Security field, or at least went to the
- >National Computer Security Conference, you might just run into it again. AIM
- >(access control) can be a pain, but its actually quite useful.
-
- Actually, I never mastered AIM, but so far I've never really run across
- a situation where it would have been necessary. (I'm not saying, by
- the way, that AIM isn't useful -- just not needed for the sorts of
- things I do.) I'd be happy to have (just) the Multics style ACLs,
- without AIM.
-
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- Paul Smee, Computing Service, University of Bristol, Bristol BS8 1UD, UK
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