Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!chinacat!sequoia!rpp386!jfh From: jfh@rpp386.cactus.org (John F Haugh II) Newsgroups: comp.unix.sysv386 Subject: Re: SCO doesn't sell UNIX Message-ID: <18804@rpp386.cactus.org> Date: 11 Dec 90 12:34:15 GMT References: <1990Dec08.224008.829@kithrup.COM> Reply-To: jfh@rpp386.cactus.org (John F Haugh II) Organization: Lone Star Cafe and BBS Service Lines: 15 X-Clever-Slogan: Recycle or Die. In article drmorris@athena.mit.edu (David R Morrison) writes: >I wrestled with SCO last summer, and what amused me most was that they >went to an extreme to make the machine (kernel/os) secure, and practicly >ignored making a distributed system secure. Technically speaking, there is no such thing as a secure distributed system. The Orange Book does not address network O/S's and once you connect your machine to another, all bets were off. >This is a C2 secure system? No. It's a bunch of stuff someone decided to market as a C2 system. -- John F. Haugh II UUCP: ...!cs.utexas.edu!rpp386!jfh Ma Bell: (512) 832-8832 Domain: jfh@rpp386.cactus.org