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From: ron@afsg.apple.com (Ron Flax)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.internals
Subject: Re: Unix security additions
Message-ID: <546@afsg.apple.com>
Date: 13 Mar 91 03:33:33 GMT
References: <1991Mar11.174711.4027@decuac.dec.com> <1991Mar12.102415.22627@kithrup.COM> <1991Mar12.185154.2423@decuac.dec.com>
Organization: Apple Federal Systems Group
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In article <1991Mar12.185154.2423@decuac.dec.com> mjr@hussar.dco.dec.com (Marcus J. Ranum) writes:
>>I heard, somewhere (InfoWorld?) that Apple was doing something with a secure
>
>access control have to be addressed in the window manager. It's called
>the Compartmented Mode Workstation (CMW) and presently DEC, Sun, IBM,
>Apple and maybe others are working on products that will be CMW.

Correction Apple has a CMW product! Now.

Apple is the *only* vendor that currently has an evaluated CMW product.
It is based on Apple's A/UX operating system release 1.1, with The X
Window System and OSF/Motif.  The X Server and Motif window manager where
extensively modified to provide a trusted windowing environment.  As
noted above this is required for a CMW.

--
Ron Flax
ron@afsg.apple.com	
Apple Federal Systems Group