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From: millman@garnet.Sbi.COM (Phillip Millman)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.pyramid
Subject: Re: Upgrade 5.0d for 9825
Summary: Undocumented "Features"
Message-ID: <963@garnet.Sbi.COM>
Date: 27 Nov 90 19:53:49 GMT
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> 	I'm not sure there were any undocumented features in OSx 5.1a, 
> particularly with respect to 5.1. The release notes are redone for each
> version shipped, and updated with anything new.
> 
> 	From the sounds of it, you are running into some of the security
> enhancements. These consisted of a number of things, including new
> functionality (such as access control lists) and fixing lots of existing
> security holes. I suspect the latter are causing your problems. This is
> the standard tradeoff between security and ease of use, I'm afraid.
> 

I know that most questions recieved by RTOC are TITM (They're in the Manual) so
I read the ENTIRE installation manual especially the part about security
fearing that something may not work.  This PATH problem was undocumented and
the tech helping me didn't know about it either (until he talked to one 
of the OS developers.

I agree about the trade offs and I'm the first to advocate security on UNIX
machines (after being burned by the Morris Worm).  This change made a noticable
difference in the ease in which our 411 shell scripts worked.


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