Re: sudo without password


Michael T. Richter wrote:

UNIX was designed long before there was an Internet. And its security
model shows it. (Sudo is an afterthought, not the primary model.) A
modern security model would be capabilities-based -- you know, two
generations of security architecture past what UNIX was designed with.

Does it matter what it was designed with? Isn't it more important what is has
now?

If the importance is based on primary design, Windows cannot do Internet,
right? As I remember it wasn't really well supported until Win98.

And please correct me if I am wrong, but i believe that OpenSolaris ( a Unix,
that is ) has the capabilities-based security model. That is today, of cause
and not the original design, but that dosen't matter, or what?

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Morten W. Jørgensen

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