Turning Security Off on SCO Unix?

[uhclem at trsvax.UUCP]

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R2>P.S. I'm not a spook, just ran Unix with C2 on till I though it
R2>was bumping into things, then turned it off ("relax security").
R2>Didn't notice any change excpet for ps -ef.   Of course things
R2>might have been a bit slower with process accounting turned on.

Just returned from a SCO-sponsered Open Desktop presentation.
One of the things that came out of that was that you can NEVER turn
C2 "OFF" entirely.  You can just turn some of it off with the
"relax" option.  For instance, C2 breaks multiple-group support, and it was
asked if "relax"ing would let you use multi-groups.  The answer
SCO gave the group was "Uh, not yet, maybe in 5.3.2."  (It also plays
havoc with NFS, old and HDB UUCP, and who knows what else.  SCO also said 
that 'su' to root was completely illegal thanks to C2.  Does anyone know
if this is true under "relax"ed conditions?)   

An interesting thought is how can 5.3 get certified as C2 with a way to
bypass C2, ie, "relax"?  

In fact, "5.3.2 should fix that" was the answer to many questions that would
affect someone thinking about upgrading to UNIX 5.3 (with or without OpenDesk)
from an earlier XENIX/UNIX system.  Too many things have been broken and
*may* be fixed in some future release for me to want to migrate now.

So, when will 5.3.2 be out and what will it fix?   SCO?

<My opinion, and not that of my employer who probably thinks OpenDesk
 is competition to DeskMate anyway.>
						
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