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Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.development Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!decwrl!netcomsv!netcom.com!pcbsd From: pcbsd@netcom.com (PCBSD Development Manager) Subject: Re: Porting NetBSD to OS/2 and Windows NT Message-ID: <pcbsdCGxx6J.8A2@netcom.com> Organization: NETCOM On-line Communication Services (408 241-9760 guest) X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL8] References: <CGw83t.3K3@dragon.dsh.org> Date: Tue, 23 Nov 1993 10:30:19 GMT Lines: 18 Gary D. Duzan (gary@dragon.dsh.org) wrote: : Mightn't such an approach cause security problems for programs : which assume the system is honoring the file ownership and permissions? : I would think that OS/2 programs would be able to access the files : regardless of the extended attributes, unless the files have some : other protection. /etc/master.password is one example. Any approach taken (and there are other possibilities than EAs) will not be 100% secure. The only security that may be guaranteed is for users logging in via serial or network connections. On the other hand, PCBSD will never claim to provide a completely secure environment in the first releases (we are working on a mechanism to be added later to secure the system). -- --------------------------------- ------------------------------ -- PCBSD Development Manager -- -- Service Commitment Support -- --------------------------------- ------------------------------