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From: freedman@euclid.math.temple.edu (Avi Freedman)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.xenix
Subject: Turning Security Off on SCO Unix?
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Date: 16 Dec 89 15:12:39 GMT
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Reply-To: freedman@euclid.math.temple.edu (Avi Freedman)
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	I have heard that it is faster to turn off security on SCO 
	Unix.  Is this true?  (For filesystem acces, especially?)  
	Besides, it really annoyed me when I told one of my users 
	"Oh, just get the .newsrc in my directory ~freedman" and 
	it was mode 600.  It says something in the manuals about 
	leaving the modes at 600 for auth to work.  If I relax 
	security, should changing this work fine?

	By the way... The new HardCache/ESDI controller from Compu-
	Add is quite awesome.  With the cache turned OFF, I bench-
	marked 750K/sec reads under DOS with my Priam 630 330MB 
	drive (haven't tried under Unix yet), and with just 256K it 
	claims (according to on-board statistics) a hit ratio of 93%,
	just from read-ahead, I imagine.  I'm sorely tempted to bump 
	the thing up to 4MB!!!


			- Avi Freedman
			freedman@euclid.math.temple.edu