diff -r 9fc6ec22ad82 -r 630a3dd1efda handouts/ho04.tex --- /dev/null Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 1970 +0000 +++ b/handouts/ho04.tex Sat Oct 18 02:17:21 2014 +0100 @@ -0,0 +1,31 @@ +\documentclass{article} +\usepackage{../style} +\usepackage{../langs} +\usetikzlibrary{patterns,decorations.pathreplacing} + +\begin{document} + +\section*{Handout 4 (Unix-Style Access Control)} + +Access control is essentially about deciding whether to grant +access to a resource or deny it. This sounds easy. Right? Well +it turns out that things are not as simple as seem at first. +Let us study as a case how access is organised in Unix-like +systems (Windows systems have generally similar access +control, although the details might be quite different). + +Following the Unix-philosophy that everything is considered as +a file, even memory or ports, access control is organised +around 11 Bits that specify how a file can be accessed. There +are three modes for access \textbf{r}ead, \textbf{w}rite and +e\textbf{x}ecute. Moreover there are .... owner, group and +everybody else. + + + +\end{document} + +%%% Local Variables: +%%% mode: latex +%%% TeX-master: t +%%% End: