Path: utzoo!censor!geac!torsqnt!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!mcsun!ukc!icdoc!gould.doc!dme From: dme@doc.ic.ac.uk (Dave Edmondson) Newsgroups: comp.unix.sysv386 Subject: Re: SCO's C2 came to the rescue!!! Message-ID: Date: 19 Dec 90 10:07:24 GMT References: <36@unigold.UUCP> <1990Dec14.044253.675@NCoast.ORG> <2371@edat.UUCP> Sender: news@doc.ic.ac.uk Organization: Imperial College Mafia Lines: 32 In-reply-to: brian@edat.UUCP's message of 16 Dec 90 05:40:16 GMT This is quoted from the December 1990 issue of UnixWorld, and is reproduced without permission (see page 16): "SCO TO EASE UP ON OVERTIGHT SECURITY The Santa Cruz Operation says it will make things a little easier for users who've had trouble with the new security features in SCO UNIX 3.2 Version 2.0. The company added the security features to qualify for the Defense Department's C2 security classification. At first SCO claimed the security features don't affect users at all and shouldn't give system administrators much grief, either. But some system administrators complain about the increased complexity of adding new users with the security turned on, and the apparent lack of a way to turn the security features off. SCO says that the nex versions of its UNIX will address all thos problems. According to SCO UNIX Product Manager Charley Watkins, the ``security administration'' menu system will be combined with the system administration menus to make adding users a one-step process, and setting security to a minimum will also require one step. Watkins also says SCO is working on a command-line interface for system administration for system administrators who don't line useing SCO's menu system." All of the typos are mine. Sorry if you see this as advertising - I thought that it might be informative. dave. -- Dave Edmondson, Systems Support. Opinions are all my own. Department of Computing, Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine, 180 Queen's Gate, London SW7 1BZ. phone: 071-589-5111 x5085 fax: 071-581-8024 email: dme@doc.ic.ac.uk, ..!ukc!icdoc!dme, dme@athena.mit.edu ``Be selective, be objective, be an asset to the collective'' -- Jazzy B