"A month of sundays ago Jesse Pollard wrote:"
> "Peter T. Breuer" <ptb@it.uc3m.es>:
> >"A month of sundays ago Jesse Pollard wrote:"
> >> There really shouldn't be 32K privileged programs, and I suspect that 255
> >> would be sufficient.
> >Reminds me of a certain statement about 640K.
>
> yeah it does... but at least I didn't say "255 should be enough for anybody".
>
> I have done counts on the total number of setuid programs (IRIX) and it was
> under 100. Some of these programs really didn't rate being setuid anyway so
> they lost the setuid/setgid bit, leaving only 55.
Unfortunately this is the same reasoning. Back then there weren't any
home computers with more than 100K of ram.
If you make these capabilities safe and useful, then they will be used.
Peter
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