Unix (In)Security - (nf)

[Rich Kulawiec]

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Are there any flaws which have no way to be plugged?
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	I believe the original paper on Unix security by Thompson et. al.
points out that the very existence of the superuser represents a flaw in
Unix security.  As a side note for those looking for references, Berkeley
did some work on something called "data-secure Unix" a while back;
I think I saw the writeup in the ACM journal on operating systems.
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Rich Kulawiec @ Purdue University Computing Center
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