From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Nov 1 2: 9:59 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from atkielski.com (atkielski.com [161.58.232.69]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5FE2E37B406 for ; Thu, 1 Nov 2001 02:09:54 -0800 (PST) Received: from contactdish (ASt-Lambert-101-2-1-14.abo.wanadoo.fr [193.251.59.14]) by atkielski.com (8.11.6) id fA1A9X654288; Thu, 1 Nov 2001 11:09:33 +0100 (CET) Message-ID: <005301c162bd$59ac2740$0a00000a@atkielski.com> From: "Anthony Atkielski" To: "FreeBSD Questions" References: <005a01c161ed$a19933c0$1401a8c0@tedm.placo.com> <5.1.0.14.2.20011101165340.02192a40@pop.ozemail.com.au> Subject: Re: Tiny starter configuration for FreeBSD Date: Thu, 1 Nov 2001 11:09:49 +0100 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="Windows-1252" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4522.1200 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4522.1200 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Rob writes: > Please explain _this_ one? I'm surprised that any explanation is required. The security problems with UNIX are legion, but the two that generally spring to mind instantly are the all-or-nothing privilege structure of the system (you're either root, and master of the world, or someone else, and master of nothing), and the absence of any real granularity in access controls (you can control owner, group, and world permissions, and nothing else). This sort of lightweight security was fairly common forty years ago when UNIX was developed, but today it is considered massively insecure. And the big brother of UNIX had exactly the opposite type of security, i.e., some of the best that any operating system has ever had. At the time, however, good security ate up lots of expensive machine resources, and the thought of strangers banging against a system from computers around the world virtually never entered anyone's mind. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message