Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!philabs!cmcl2!floyd!harpo!seismo!hao!hplabs!sri-unix!edhall@rand-unix From: edhall%rand-unix@sri-unix.UUCP Newsgroups: net.unix-wizards Subject: Re: The Security of UNIX - the proposed unix-security Message-ID: <2306@sri-arpa.UUCP> Date: Sat, 18-Jun-83 04:00:00 EDT Article-I.D.: sri-arpa.2306 Posted: Sat Jun 18 04:00:00 1983 Date-Received: Mon, 20-Jun-83 04:21:26 EDT Lines: 15 I'd certainly fix any bug that came my way just as fast as I could. And I've fixed possible security problems reported here before. But I think we should realize that system administrators with access to UNIX-WIZARDS are a minority. Not everyone is blessed with access to one of the nets... But some `bad guys' are. There really isn't an easy solution. If BTL were to send bug fixes to licensees periodically (for an appropriate fee) it might help. But the probability of that is exactly zero; besides, they don't have a monopoly on wizards (as this list attests), and could easily miss something. I'm happy to see serious discussion of the issue. -Ed