Re: Operator, Information, give me geom.ctl on the line

Cy Schubert <[email protected]> Tue, 28 Jul 2026 14:52:05 -0700
Newsgroups gmane.os.freebsd.current
Message-ID <[email protected]>
In message <[email protected]>, Bob Bishop 
writes:
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> Hi,
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> > On 28 Jul 2026, at 20:57, Poul-Henning Kamp <[email protected]> =
> wrote:
> >=20
> > [=E2=80=A6]
> > All the way back to 386BSD's /etc/MAKEDEV script, and probably prior =
> to
> > that, group operator  [etc]
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> I suspect this may originate with UTS on IBM mainframes in the early =
> 80s.

If you consider RACF Operations attribute, maybe slightly. But RACF and 
ACF/2 concepts of permissions cannot be translated to UNIX permissions. 
Comparing anything UNIX with MVS is like comparing apples and oragnes.

And WRT OS/360 there was no concept of security beyond obscurity.


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