Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!lll-winken!ames!haven!adm!smoke!gwyn From: gwyn@smoke.BRL.MIL (Doug Gwyn) Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards Subject: Re: Getting rid of the root account Message-ID: <10444@smoke.BRL.MIL> Date: 24 Jun 89 23:55:23 GMT References: <127@orchid.warwick.ac.uk> <16659@rpp386.Dallas.TX.US> <4499@ficc.uu.net> <1566@mcgill-vision.UUCP> <12148@bloom-beacon.MIT.EDU> <16734@rpp386.Dallas.TX.US> Reply-To: gwyn@brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn) Organization: Ballistic Research Lab (BRL), APG, MD. Lines: 6 In article <16734@rpp386.Dallas.TX.US> jfh@rpp386.cactus.org (John F. Haugh II) writes: >No trusted program should ever execute any untrusted program. >UNIX completely lacks this concept. Yeah, and it lacks a lot of other bogus concepts too. That's why some of us love UNIX so.