RE: Security stuff

["Konrad M.Kokoszkiewicz" <draco@mi.com.pl>]

> Or maybe I'm right, wouldn't that be another possibility?
> 
> Yes, I do understand the concept of remote shells and so on. If you are 
> intending to protect your system from people running a remote shell under 
> MiNT, then please explain how you want to prevent them from running a 
> program which just does one AES or VDI call and that way gets access to 
> supervisor mode?

By keeping such software on another partition, where people working
remotely have no access to :) 

> If your answer is: no GEM anyway, then I must ask why you don't simply run 
> Linux....

I don't run Linux, because I am running MiNT and I don't need more
operating systems on my disk. I do run MiNT, because I think it is
functionally the same as Linux or any other Unix, plus it gives me
possibility to run GEM and GEM software on the console. Which means MiNT
is better than Linux for my particular requirements. I just don't like
rebooting to another system (supposedly from Linux to MagiC), when I
want to stop working with pico and start running Calamus. There is a
system which can run either pico and Calamus at the same time, all the
time being on line and available for remote users. This system is MiNT.

What is I don't understand, is why you seem to negate any way which could
lead to improve MiNT considered as an Unix system, mean any particular
way to improve its security for networking. What is bad in the concept
of using MiNT as a net server? MiNT is stable enough and has enough
daemons to support most basic services (telnet, ftp, http, mail). You may
be sure I *do* care on backward compatibility and I don't want to stay
alone with a "secure" kernel unable to run anything. 

Also, I don't understand why you're sitting here and give everybody
proposals to move to another system. "Buy MagiC" you said, now you say
"run Linux". Perhaps I have to sell all my Atari equipment and start
selling vegetables on a street? If you're now running MagiC, it is OK for
me, you apparently like it. If you're running Linux - it is also OK, it is
a great OS without any doubt. If you stopped dealing with MiNT, it is
great pity, because you're good programmer, but it is up to you. But
please, stop complaining on anything people write here!

Regards

Konrad M.Kokoszkiewicz

mail:draco@nidus.mi.com.pl
http://www.orient.uw.edu.pl/~conradus/
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