Subject: Re: [netatalk-admins] shared Logins on UNIX/Mac?
From: Tony Stuckey (stuckey@jaka.ece.uiuc.edu)
Date: Tue Aug 11 1998 - 13:10:50 EDT
> That's a laugh. MacOS more secure than UNIX. Pretty much every UNIX is
> minimally C2-classified (US Dept. of Defense rates OS security), as is
> NT and Netware. MacOS has never been tested and won't be until OS X
> Server at the soonest, because all MacOSes I've ever seen wouldn't
> even merit a rating...
If you don't have physical access to the machine, MacOS is quite
secure. You can run a MacOS web server or file server on the general
internet without worry. Most unix systems run too many services to say
the same thing.
Under both unix and MacOS, it is usually the service, rather than
the kernel, which is broken into via the net.
Also, the lack of a shell-style program on the Macintosh implies
that it would be harder to take advantage of a break-in.
-- Anthony J. Stuckey stuckey@jaka.ece.uiuc.edu "When I was young, the sky was full of stars. I watched them burn out one by one." -Warren Zevon
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