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Why we should care

Why we should care

Posted Aug 20, 2005 4:27 UTC (Sat) by josh_stern (guest, #4868)
In reply to: Why we should care by cdmiller
Parent article: An overview of multilevel security

One good example would be a system that assigns different sensitivity levels to UserX when logged in an an on-site console vs. logged in remotely. At first glance, you think, "why would putting up with that PITA be a good thing?" It's mainly a good thing on systems where allowing remote login at all might otherwise be considered too risky. On such a system, this extra removal of priviledge for the remote login is what enables it at all.


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