Who's in charge here: Oracle or Unix?

[Ray Shwake]

gbarnet at uswnvg.UUCP (Gary Barnette) writes:
>Request for open discussion:

>There has been a battle going on around here on administrating
>some of the system flat files associated with Unix. The file of concern
>are /etc/passwd, /etc/group, /etc/hosts, and some configuration files 
>used by a menuing system. 

	Well, I cast my vote strongly with the SA staff - and not just
because I've spent much of my UN!X career as an administrator. For years
I've blasted programs that usurp system priviledge without cause, and
even cast a few words about programmers who are too lazy to work out a
proper permission strategy. (Some guidelines for programmers in this
regard can be found in _Unix_System_Security_ by Wood and Kochan.)

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