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Article #6155Re: AmigaOS/UNIX - A Suggestion
From: Dan Zerkle
Date: Mon, 29 Oct 1990 04:38
Date: Mon, 29 Oct 1990 04:38
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In article <643@macuni.mqcc.mq.oz> ifarqhar@sunc.mqcc.mq.oz.au (Ian Farquhar) writes:
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>Secondly, few people have pointed out the basic security flaw in Amiga
>UNIX: anybody with a fairly simple program can access *anything* in the
>UNIX partition as long as this program can read sectors from the disk
>under AmigaOS.
Why is everybody having such a fit about this? Assuming you want any
sort of security, you need a multi-user system -- i.e. Unix not
AmigaDos. Fine. Put a Unix partition on the disk and not an AmigaDos
partition. If you are really worried, you can take out the internal
floppy, too.
Seems simple enough to me.
Dan Zerkle zerkle@iris.ucdavis.edu (916) 754-0240
Amiga... Because life is too short for boring computers.
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!attcan!uunet!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!ucbvax!ucdavis!iris!zerkle From: zerkle@iris.ucdavis.edu (Dan Zerkle) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech Subject: Re: AmigaOS/UNIX - A Suggestion Message-ID: <7881@ucdavis.ucdavis.edu> Date: 29 Oct 90 04:38:39 GMT References: <606@macuni.mqcc.mq.oz> <15069@cbmvax.commodore.com> <643@macuni.mqcc.mq.oz> <914@boing.UUCP> Sender: usenet@ucdavis.ucdavis.edu Reply-To: zerkle@iris.ucdavis.edu (Dan Zerkle) Organization: U.C. Davis - Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Lines: 17