What are the major differences between trusted and non-trusted systems?
• A trusted system allows system auditing to be turned on. System auditing enables the ability to trace every system call issued by each user on the system. Non-trusted systems run with system auditing disabled. • Trusted systems have improved password management. Below is a list of password management features: • Specification of a grace period and expiration period for passwords. • The ability to specify system-wide password aging. • The ability to specify an absolute account life. • The ability to disable accounts after repeated login failures. • Passwords lengths of up to forty (40) characters. • The ability to access a random password generator. • Trusted systems have additional login restrictions, while non-trusted systems do not. Below are the features of trusted system login restrictions: • In addition to account disabling, the account may also be locked. • Setting accounts to be accessed only at certain times of the day. • The ability to specify account location access. In oth