Subject: Re: [netatalk-admins] shared Logins on UNIX/Mac?
From: Casey Bisson (cbisson@oz.plymouth.edu)
Date: Tue Aug 11 1998 - 13:24:46 EDT
Please don't think that I'm trying to start a flame war, or veer too far off
topic...
>From my understanding, the US Dept. of Defense rates single computer
installations, not OSs. The ratings refer primarily to the isolation of users and
data in a multiuser system, and to network security. As the MacOS is not
multiuser, it would not be considered. However, it's security to attack from the
network is considered better than many other OSs (though I will concede that no
Mac runs as many network services as most unix boxes).
The anti-Microsoft plug of the day is that the security rating for the NT
installation was done with no networking, with networking it failed.
Casey Bisson
Information Technology
Plymouth State College
> 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...
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