[Coco] Telnet to your CoCo.. and invite 6 of your friends

[Wayne Campbell]

I am probably too ignorant to even touch on this topic, but it seems to me it's a matter of permissions. Just like with Unix, OS-9 allows you to set access permissions based on the attributes of the file/folder/program. In order for a user to use a program, they have to have permission to access the directory, and the file and/or program to use it.

With this in mind, one can establish a userlevel that makes it possible to prevent users with lower access levels from using or accessing things requiring higher access levels. Is this not the case with OS-9?

I seem to recall something about userlevel using tsmon. Again, I'm not that educated in this field, so please forgive any implication of understanding on my part.

Wayne




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From: Willard Goosey <goosey at virgo.sdc.org>
To: CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts <coco at maltedmedia.com>
Sent: Sat, November 28, 2009 8:31:05 PM
Subject: Re: [Coco] Telnet to your CoCo.. and invite 6 of your friends

On Sat, Nov 28, 2009 at 05:53:53PM -0500, Aaron Wolfe wrote:
> "Security" in OS-9 seems to be mostly based on the honor system.

Unfortunately.  I'd always been under the impression that while the
security wasn't complete, what was there worked properly. This doesn't
seem to be the case.

>The real limitation is that the Coco cannot protect
> memory as far as I can tell.
>
Correct.  It's a hardware limitation of the MMU, not the operating
system's fault.

> I mostly guess people would use this feature to run a multiline BBS,
> which *should* have it's own security, 

Yeah, I never did the BBS thing, so I don't really understand it.
Without shell access, what's the point? ;-)  See, my first experience
with multi-user machines was UNIX.

> It would also be trivial to add a simple password check before
> allowing a connection to a port, if that would be useful.

I believe there are replacement login programs with a real(-ish ;)
password program with them on RTSI.

Willard
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