C2 secure systems and the superuser

Karl Lehenbauer karl at ficc.ferranti.com
Mon Mar 18 07:45:02 AEST 1991


In article <1991Mar14.022920.19647 at convex.com> tchrist at convex.COM (Tom Christiansen) writes:
>... The C2 folks seem to think a system is
>more secure this way, but I see it as having N accounts to try to
>find holes into rather than just one.  This makes it easier for
>the cracker.

Yeah, too, most Unix systems are small enough that they only have one or 
two administrators anyway, so for small sites, having lots of different
signons with different permissions is simply an inconvenience to the one
person who does all the admin stuff anyway.
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