[TUHS] Government-Issue UNIX?

[Jon Forrest via TUHS]

On 10/9/25 4:10 PM, Rik Farrow via TUHS wrote:
> Speaking of the AT&T Orange Book, B level Unix system, I had some minor
> involvement with it from the system administration side of things. A secure
> US facility in the San Jose area known as the Blue Cube had sent a couple
> of servicemen to a class in security I was teaching. They shared a manual
> for managing the security aspects of the system: 123 commands just for
> managing security. That seemed totally unreasonable to me, in that most
> people had a difficult enough time managing ordinary Unix systems, where a
> sysadmin needed to know just a relative two handfuls of commands to be
> effective.
> 
> I wonder how well KSOS was designed, or if it also included over 100 new
> commands for managing mandatory security?

I have no idea since I left Ford before KSOS was finished.

John Nagle, who sometimes posts here, would probably know.

Jon