El Sáb 13 Sep 2003 10:41, Anthony E. Greene escribió:
> On 11-Sep-2003/15:54 -0500, Dave Ihnat <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> >> In a former lifetime, I used to work on VAX/VMS for classified (as
> >> in military) work. I can't remember the issues, but when we started
> >> moving off the VAX/VMS over to Unix workstations, the IT security
> >> folks were not at all comfortable with the security of Unix compared
> >> to the VAX/VMS. Does anyone have any insights as to why that might be?
> >
> >Sure; there are a lot of them. One of the most telling is the fact
> >that permissions on Unix/Linux are binary--you're root, or you're not.
> >There's no provision in standard Unix/Linux for graduated levels of
> >authority, or for cooperative privileges (e.g., it takes both the Security
> >Officer and Administrator, each providing a separate authentication,
> >to gain certain security levels; no one person can do so.)
>
> You obviously know this, but I think it's necessary to mention that there
> is at least one ACL system for Linux.
It's inside kernel 2.6
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