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- From: rkoehler@author.gsfc.nasa.gov (BOB KOEHLER)
- Subject: Re: What is lacking in UNIX? (Re: UNIVEL MUST BE KIDDING!!!!!)
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- Date: Tue, 29 Dec 1992 14:50:00 GMT
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- In article <Bzv6x9.8FE@tnl.com>, norstar@tnl.com (Daniel Ray) writes...
- >My favorite lacking in UNIX is in the area of system security. I wish
- >UNIX had ACLs like VAX/VMS systems do. It would allow for user-by-user
- >access lists, and not just owner-group-other access.
- >
-
- Well, HP-UX does have ACLs, though I haven't actually used them so I can't
- swear they're really like those in VMS (which I certainly have used). In
- general, anything real in UNIX security is vendor dependent, which bites into
- UNIX knowledge portability for system administrators, but also means that a
- crack into one vendor's UNIX won't port to another so easily.
-