On Fri, 04 Oct 1996 22:03:17 +1030, Petr Snajdr wrote:
is Windows NT secured system ? NT? Secured? hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahhahahahahahahaha How ?
By turning off the machine, unpluging the ethernet, moving the hard drive to another state...
8-) ..and Os/2,unix .etc.etc. not ?
OS/2 doesn't claim to be a secure multiuser operating system. If they have console access, they *can* get almost anything*. Unix can be secure, but most places don't run it in the most secure form. However, your average Unix box is probably going to do pretty well, especially if you've compiled Linux with an encrypting file system. Microsoft claims C2 or higher for NT and deserves any ragging they get if it's not. Ditto for any other vendor who claims one thing and sells another. BTW: Bizarre NT Quirk #15413 - The Administrator account does not have access to the entire disk. You got it - if you're the administrator you still cannot look into certain directories belonging to another user - even if you've given all access privileges to the Admin account. Got a few chuckles at work. * - The various OS/2 Servers have a new version of the High Performance File System. HPFS386 does a much better job of maintaining security. Apparently even the boot-floppy that can defeat NTFS won't work. I haven't verified this yet because I'm still waiting for my personal copy of Warp Server Advanced-SMP to arrive. # Chris Adams <adamsc@io-online.com> | http://www.io-online.com/adamsc/adamsc.htp # <cadams@acucobol.com> | send mail with subject "send PGPKEY" "That's our advantage at Microsoft; we set the standards and we can change them." --- Karen Hargrove, Microsoft (quoted in the Feb 1993 Unix Review editorial)