From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-0.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,SYSADMIN autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,55958fd991db66fe X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2002-09-12 09:45:15 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!uio.no!ntnu.no!not-for-mail From: Preben Randhol Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Advantage of XML based GUI? (was Re: Ada-inspired OS/Language) Date: Thu, 12 Sep 2002 16:45:14 +0000 (UTC) Organization: Norwegian university of science and technology Message-ID: References: <4519e058.0209101828.cb5ff85@posting.google.com> <3d7f9d3f.920665532@news.cis.dfn.de> <3d80b566.992395741@news.cis.dfn.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: kiuk0156.chembio.ntnu.no X-Trace: tyfon.itea.ntnu.no 1031849114 18374 129.241.83.82 (12 Sep 2002 16:45:14 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@itea.ntnu.no NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 12 Sep 2002 16:45:14 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: slrn/0.9.7.4 (Linux) Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:28875 Date: 2002-09-12T16:45:14+00:00 List-Id: On Thu, 12 Sep 2002 16:12:12 GMT, Nick Roberts wrote: > All security features are optional. It's just that they are optional for > the privileged user, not for the ordinary user! I don't think I understand what is inherently more secure that it says Top Secret on the top of some piece of paper. To me it sounds like something only usable in the military? > If you were running AdaOS on your own personal computer, you would be the > system administrator, and so you would have the highest privileges (you are > allowed to do anything ;-). Probably you would have security label printing > permanently turned off. In fact, probably you would have no mandatory > security features operative at all. I hope you are thinking of doing it the UNIX way. I mean that the user does not have root/administrator privileges and that there is only one root superuser which is not used unless when one needs to install software. This document should be of interest: http://www.nsa.gov/selinux/ Preben Randhol