Ron Seybold writes:
 
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>In this week's Infoworld, columnist Robert Cringely has found a gaping hole
>in Windows NT security. The details are available on page 138, but it
>sounds like the default User Policies settings let Everyone "access this
>computer from the network." Cringley goes on to say that "the NT world is
>wide open, which means anonymous or guest FTP clients by default have full
>file access rights, unlike in Unix, where access is usually limited." The
>problem was discovered at HP, where 9 of 10 NT workstations checked had the
>access door open.
 
This is something that I sure would want to pass on to my management.
 
>I read the NT story right after a rumor crossed my desk that HP is poised
>to  embrace NT as a PA-RISC OS in the coming year, much to the dismay of
>the Unix advocates at HP. From the looks of the Infoworld report, it
>appears those Unix advocates are doing their best to identify the holes in
>NT that their beloved HP-UX has plugged. Expect the Unix fans at HP to be
>looking over their shoulder at NT during 1996 -- especially now that Rick
>Belluzzo has mandated that the GSY and PCO groups have to work together
>better. Everybody has a newcomer to fret over, and now HP-UX has one, too.
>Instead of searching for the next silver bullet OS, HP ought to look toward
>its most secure operating system, MPE/iX.
 
I believe HP has received a lot of pressure from thier customer base to do
so. I myself, being one of the guilty parties have been lobbying for HP to
support NT on all their platforms as an alternative operating system. As the
demand for NT grows, it makes economic sense for HP to consider this market.
 
I personally believe that NT is a good fit for local computing. I do not
believe that it is robust enough for enterprise wide computing like HP-UX.
There are still a lot of concerns that HP-UX is still not mature enough to
satisfy security requirements, but it is the best non-proprietary solution
on the market.
 
The problem that I see with MPE/iX, as solid as it is, is that it doesn't
run on non-HP hardware. Now, if HP would consider supporting MPE/iX from the
desktop to the mainframe, regardless of hardware, then maybe we have got
something to seriously consider. (I wonder if Bill Gates is listening? ...)
 
BTW, thanks for the info Ron!
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