[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index]
[ih] Ping Eduardo A. Suárez (was Re: What is the origin of the root account?)
- Subject: [ih] Ping Eduardo A. Suárez (was Re: What is the origin of the root account?)
- From: bill.n1vux at gmail.com (Bill Ricker)
- Date: Thu, 18 Apr 2013 22:25:19 -0400
- In-reply-to: <[email protected]>
- References: <[email protected]> <[email protected]> <[email protected]> <CAJLkZP=Jjo7KSm2cQzGTH1_tqAQdqQqzMm5scD-Gv+K9q_hRiw@mail.gmail.com> <[email protected]> <CAJLkZPmY-ujJaTNvSWtX7OmRnprNS-WYQq7kSY_WpMS=8GSMzQ@mail.gmail.com> <CAAbKA3Wz-afn_-qy3t-451BV=i1WaOSKMsUkQQfiFpNP46FH1g@mail.gmail.com> <[email protected]>
On Thu, Apr 18, 2013 at 12:27 AM, Dave Crocker <dhc2 at dcrocker.net> wrote:
> I've heard claims that setuid was also an innovation in unix. No idea of
> the construct's history.
>
quite possibly.
(Unix security was otherwise a simplification of Multics's, until the
re-discovery of ACL's - from Multicians again.)
--
Bill
@n1vux bill.n1vux at gmail.com
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://elists.isoc.org/pipermail/internet-history/attachments/20130418/fae65dad/attachment.html>