Re: VMS style ACLs?

[Eugene Leitl]

CyberPeasant writes:
 > I think that the desired place to implement security is in the
 > kernel and/or fs. 
 
Yes. And video, and speech input, and mouse drivers, and stuff. This
would seem to run against the trend towards micro and nanokernels. If
we ever are to progress to systems-on-a-wafer, we _need_ nanokernels.

ciao,
'gene
 
 > Under RMS, things like the meaning and definition of the fields
 > of a database record (including ACLs at the field level), can
 > be specified at the time the database is created. 
 > 
 > Once again, I haven't had my hands on a VMS system since 1989,
 > so I'm working from memory.
 > 
 > Dave
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