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From: eugene@AMES-NAS.ARPA (Eugene Miya)
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Subject: VAX security
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Date: Thu, 14-Nov-85 12:01:54 EST
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If Mr. Goldstein is the person who wrote the recent VAX security
guide from DEC, I am impressed.  I am surprised that no one from
the Unix community has responded to this.  This issue came up in the
Unix community about 2 years ago.  What was created was a mailing
list based on interested parties who could show that they had
some business doing security work (at least to a low-level) like
mailing from the "root" account.  The equivalent thing might be to
issue the mail from SYSTEM.  This offers a first cut, and nothing more.

I did not join the above mailing list as research in security is
not my interest, but I offer it as a helpful suggestion for future
security discussions.  Perhaps, Mr. Goldstein can act as keeper
of such a security discussion list.

"I would never join a group that would have me for a member."
Woody Allen and many others.

--eugene miya
  NASA Ames Research Center
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