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From: meo@Dixie.Com (Miles ONeal)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.programmer
Subject: Re: C2 secure systems and the superuser
Message-ID: <8319@rsiatl.Dixie.Com>
Date: 18 Mar 91 04:39:47 GMT
Organization: Systems & Software Solutions, Inc.
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Tom Christiansen writes:
|... The C2 folks seem to think a system is
|more secure this way, but I see it as having N accounts to try to
|find holes into rather than just one.  This makes it easier for
|the cracker...

Statistically, yes. If done well, though, the cracker has
less chance of gaining anything like absolute power. Get
in, yes. Be able to become even a demigod, no.