[ih] Ping Eduardo A. Suárez (was Re: What is the origin of the root account?)

[Bill Ricker]

On Thu, Apr 18, 2013 at 12:27 AM, Dave Crocker <dhc2 at dcrocker.net> wrote:

> I've heard claims that setuid was also an innovation in unix.  No idea of
> the construct's history.
>

quite possibly.
(Unix security was otherwise a simplification of Multics's, until the
re-discovery of ACL's - from Multicians again.)



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Bill
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