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## LINUX security

  Forum: The Linux Kernel Hackers' Guide
  Keywords: security user levels
  Date: Fri, 12 Dec 1997 14:04:36 GMT
  From: Ralf Sieger <sieger@fh-furtwangen.de>

On my last tour through the WWW I found a page describing the general security problems of ANY UNIX system. One point there was the protection of the system resources. In UNIX you only get two kinds of user levels. The superuser(root) and normal users. Where the superuser is allowed to do ANYTHING which is the in fact the security problem. At least on the intel CPU's there are more than these two user levels possible. The question is now: Why not improve the security of the system by adding at least one more user level. e.g. for an WWW deamon?