MAC question again

[Ilmar S. Habibulin]

On Tue, 28 Sep 1999, Casey Schaufler wrote:

> Categories are typically used to seperate projects. For example,
> let's say you're General Motors, with several divisions including
> pontiac, GMC, cadillac, and oldsmobile. You bought a Really Big
> system to do failure stress analysis which you want the divisions
> to share, but you don't want them sharing their data. What you
> do is put each division in a seperate category, thus preventing
> them from accessing each other's data in a way that they can't
> change.
> > 
> > PS. As i understand my mac implementation is lame. :( There are no
> > non-hierarchical categories there. Only levels. I thought that these
> > non-hierarchical categories maybe somehow emulated(?) by DAC groups.
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Now question number two - can these categories be emulated by means of
DAC groups? Why there is additional essence. Maybe MAC could be used with
out DAC?


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