Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!cs.utexas.edu!execu!sequoia!rpp386!jfh From: jfh@rpp386.Dallas.TX.US (John F. Haugh II) Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions Subject: Re: at files and permissions Message-ID: <16774@rpp386.Dallas.TX.US> Date: 8 Jul 89 13:43:11 GMT References: <8072@bsu-cs.bsu.edu> <228@arnor.UUCP> Reply-To: jfh@rpp386.cactus.org (John F. Haugh II) Followup-To: comp.unix.questions Distribution: na Organization: I am NOT the NRA Lines: 19 In article <228@arnor.UUCP> uri@arnor.UUCP (Uri Blumenthal) writes: >From article <8072@bsu-cs.bsu.edu>, by dhesi@bsu-cs.bsu.edu (Rahul Dhesi): >> >> When you discuss a security problem that is specific to System V, >> please be sure to say so clearly, else you may confuse naive users. > >First of all, not everybody familiar with System V, knows exactly which >features of BSD (and what version!) it has or has not. USG manuals and the SVID are a good indication of a feature being in ``Real UNIX[tm]''. It is BSD that confuses naive users. And indeed wizards are quite familiar with the behavior of major variations of UNIX. -- John F. Haugh II +-Quote of the month club: ------------ VoiceNet: (512) 832-8832 Data: -8835 | "Computer security is to information InterNet: jfh@rpp386.cactus.org | control as a chastity belt is to UucpNet : !bigtex!rpp386!jfh +- birth control" -- Doug Steves --