Unix and Linux Security
Gerald Beuchelt, Sun Microsystems
When Unix was first booted on a PDP-8 computer at Bell Labs, it already had a basic notion of user isolation, separation of kernel and user memory space, and process security. It was originally conceived as a multiuser system, and as such, security could not be added on as an afterthought. In this respect, Unix was different from a whole class of computing machinery that had been targeted at single-user environments.
1. Unix and Security
The examples in this chapter refer to the Solaris operating system and Debian-based Linux distributions, a commercial and a community developed operating system.
Solaris is freely available in open source and binary distributions. It derives directly ...
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