RE: Paging file

[Jim Damato <jdamato@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> Leif:
>it is not esoteric. What can be more glaring that a guy
>having complete and undected access to all of your machine.

I'm not doubting that it's glaring.  I was pretty clear in restating that
the exposure was broad.  Glaring, however, is not the opposite of esoteric.
You can have a glaring hole in a system can be exploited by an esoteric
technique.

>> Jim:
>> What do you think?  Are there other systems/databases that are inherently
>> better equipped to protect you from the types of exposures SLS presents?
>>
>Leif:
>when you are God on any system you can do anything. The SLS just
>makes this particularly easy.

I was wondering about architecture that was inherently more secure, not the
ability bypass security with a superuser account.  The hole in SLS that
you've described had nothing to do with being God on a system.

My intent was not to leap to the defense of the AS/400 by saying everything
has security holes.  I was more interested in understanding how other types
of system and database architectures either naturally or intentionally
avoided this situation.

-Jim