Re: Security Model Document, Rev. 1

2001-02-25 Thread John van V
wiz & Dan Sugalski & wiz wrote: > This is a start, which is very good, but I'm pretty sure that this is > taking things from the wrong angle to some extent. > >o In general, if everyone's mostly familiar with just Unix's security model >o I'd really, *really* urge you to read up on other models.

RE: Security Model Document, Rev. 1

2001-02-23 Thread NeonEdge
I think I see where you are coming from on the issue of CGI. I think that although we are approaching it from different angles, we are somewhat on the same track. I say "Content-Length", you say "memory limits". What I am trying to say (although I've never been really good at explaining myself)

RE: Security Model Document, Rev. 1

2001-02-23 Thread Dan Sugalski
At 04:25 PM 2/23/2001 -0500, wiz wrote: >I agree about the CGI stuff, as the username should always be the same >anyway, so it can be defined separately for that user. I do believe that we >need to at least take CGI scripts into account, however. I think if we take CGI scripts specifically in

RE: Security Model Document, Rev. 1

2001-02-23 Thread wiz
I agree about the CGI stuff, as the username should always be the same anyway, so it can be defined separately for that user. I do believe that we need to at least take CGI scripts into account, however. Some questions: 1.> you wrote: "Generally speaking we ought to have the capability to us

Re: Security Model Document, Rev. 1

2001-02-23 Thread Dan Sugalski
At 11:59 AM 2/23/2001 -0500, wiz wrote: This is a start, which is very good, but I'm pretty sure that this is taking things from the wrong angle to some extent. In general, if everyone's mostly familiar with just Unix's security model I'd really, *really* urge you to read up on other models. Th