Unix security additions

[Ron Flax]

In article <1991Mar12.185154.2423 at decuac.dec.com> mjr at hussar.dco.dec.com (Marcus J. Ranum) writes:
>>I heard, somewhere (InfoWorld?) that Apple was doing something with a secure
>
>access control have to be addressed in the window manager. It's called
>the Compartmented Mode Workstation (CMW) and presently DEC, Sun, IBM,
>Apple and maybe others are working on products that will be CMW.

Correction Apple has a CMW product! Now.

Apple is the *only* vendor that currently has an evaluated CMW product.
It is based on Apple's A/UX operating system release 1.1, with The X
Window System and OSF/Motif.  The X Server and Motif window manager where
extensively modified to provide a trusted windowing environment.  As
noted above this is required for a CMW.

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Ron Flax
ron at afsg.apple.com	
Apple Federal Systems Group