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Date:      Mon, 13 Oct 97 22:07:19 -0400
From:      Christopher Petrilli <petrilli@amber.org>
To:        "Matthew D. Fuller" <fullermd@futuresouth.com>
Cc:        "Brian Mitchell" <brian@firehouse.net>, "Colman Reilly" <careilly@monoid.cs.tcd.ie>, "Douglas Carmichael" <dcarmich@mcs.com>, <freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG>, <freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: C2 Trusted FreeBSD? 
Message-ID:  <199710140208.WAA00781@dworkin.amber.org>

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On 10/13/97 9:53 PM, Matthew D. Fuller wrote:

>I could be just being stupid here, but can't you do this by making
>everyone a member of a group with their login ID, and them only as a
>member and setting the file to (owner).user, mode 707, or something?
>Wouldn't that give everyone but that persona ccess to it?
>Did anyone even follow that?  not too clear, is it...

But what about when you have 10,000 users, and you need 486 of them to 
not have access?  Do you see the issue of performance slowly creeping up 
when yyou have 50,000 groups?  This becomes a hideous nightmare.

Chris

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| Christopher Petrilli                               "That's right you're
| petrilli@amber.org                                  not from Texas."





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