[COFF] The MOO problem and set-uid

[dot at dotat.at (Tony Finch)]

Bakul Shah <bakul at bitblocks.com> wrote:
>
> The paper referenced above is behind a paywall (you can see the first
> page *free of charge*!)
> https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/spe.4380010210

That article mentions Frank King and Barry Landy who are still around in
Cambridge.

> One place the problem is described in some detail:
> https://www.cs.unm.edu/~cris/481/gordon-moo.txt

A correction: Titan was not a Unix system :-) It was a variant of the
Ferranti Atlas, with its own timesharing operating system. But it has some
second-hand Unix connections: it was the first system to have hashed
passwords, which Unix later adopted. Stephen Bourne used Titan when
developing Algol 68C.

Tony.
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