[ale] Security best practice - Remove or disable user accounts?

Jeff Lightner jlightner at water.com
Thu Aug 7 17:07:00 EDT 2008


Yep - my last job before this one we had Dynix and I often thought it
must be modeled on Xenix given the number of UNIX commands it didn't
seem to have.  At least Xenix had the excuse that it was stripped down
to run on things like the 80286 CPU.  Dynix could hardly claim that.

-----Original Message-----
From: ale-bounces at ale.org [mailto:ale-bounces at ale.org] On Behalf Of
Michael B. Trausch
Sent: Thursday, August 07, 2008 4:33 PM
To: ale at ale.org
Subject: Re: [ale] Security best practice - Remove or disable user
accounts?

On Thu, 2008-08-07 at 15:55 -0400, Jim Kinney wrote:
> "Hang on to yer heatsinks! It's time fer an upgrade!"

lol... you'd think.  But no, my last W-2 included lots of work with
older variants of UNIX that had some of these insane limitations.  What
does POSIX require support for, anyway?  Isn't it still only 65K UIDs?

	--- Mike

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