[rescue] irix insecurity (was: Sparcstation 2 help! Please)

[G W Adkins]

> > interdimensionsal rift between us or something.
>
> Probably something related to the Einsten-Rosen bridges that connect
> different parts of the world to other parts.  Greenbelt, MD - Boston, MA
> for example.
>
Or between someone's lips and the northerly end of a southbound penguin.

> Fixing IRIX, properly, would damn near require replacing it entirely.
> Certainly you'd have to loose anything SGI wrote and which either has
> the setuid/setgid bits set, or are run in any privileged state and can
> be influenced by external input.
>
How about a little 'Real Security'? (Or is this an Unfamiliar Concept?)
This is like complaining about someone owning your box which has a blank
root password.

System Security involves three things, physical access control, network
access control, and eliminating exploitable scenarios in software and the
OS.  You can't 'root' a box without TWO of the three.  Whining about the
unwillingness or technical inability on the part of the sysadmin to deal
with one without considering the other two is either pissing into the wind,
or a troll.