Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!uakari.primate.wisc.edu!caen!umich!sharkey!rjf001!mudos!mju From: mju@mudos.ann-arbor.mi.us (Marc Unangst) Newsgroups: comp.unix.sysv386 Subject: Re: SCO License security - another flame Message-ID: Date: 8 May 91 02:23:25 GMT References: <1991May04.194857.12216@kithrup.COM> Organization: The Programmer's Pit Stop, +1 313 665 2832 Lines: 54 sef@kithrup.COM (Sean Eric Fagan) writes: > In article <91V712w164w@mudos.ann-arbor.mi.us> mju@mudos.ann-arbor.mi.us (Mar > >X11R4, > > Mayhap. But SCO didn't do the port of X, Locus did, and people at sco were > very unhappy with them. (At least some of the engineers were.) Glad to hear that SCO was unhappy. But do I have X11R4 yet? > >Motif 1.1, > > As far as I know, it wasn't out at the time. Or don't you realize that it's > somewhat difficult to release something that doesn't exist? It wasn't out when ODT 1.1 was released? Gee, I could have sworn... But, I forgot, Motif 1.1 requires X11R4, so I guess they would have to port that first. > Why? The BSD FFS would have been a terrible bitch to port. It was easier Must have been really hard, seeing as how Everex did it for ESIX (and Everex sells ESIX for a lot less than an ODT system). > >symbolic links, > > What makes you think they *didn't*? Then where are they? Why doesn't "ln -s" work? > Gee. I've never had any problems with their uucp, and I used it quite > extensively for over two years. Try naming your site something with eight characters, and compare the ways HDB and SCO handle it. > >and commands like su(1) and cron(1) that work the way I expect them to. > > Yeah. You're right. They never did anything about this. And that SLS > (available from sco [maybe uunet, too, I don't know]) which is corrects the > C2 problems (they only way I notice the c2 stuff anymore is because > passwords aren't in /etc/passwd; however, this can be a good thing) > therefore doesn't exist. They did do something about it; it just wasn't enough. I still can't log in as root, kill cron, and then restart it. The newuser program I was using for the BBS (it lets a user enter some info about them, and then creates an account) had to be heavily rewritten for SCO's security. SCO doesn't even deign to document most of it. -- Marc Unangst | mju@mudos.ann-arbor.mi.us | "Bus error: passengers dumped" ...!hela!mudos!mju |