🚀 go-pugleaf

In article <1992Apr11.225148.10654@ryptyde.cts.com> scott@ryptyde.cts.com (Scott McClure) writes:
>root@dogear.spk.wa.us (Bob Kirkpatrick) writes:
>
>>I've seen people diable the mail system of waffle (*nix) and then run elm as
>>an external. By doing this, all mail bypasses the restrictions imposed by
>>waffle itself. Of course, it takes some twiddling to accomplish...
>
>But then you have the problem of having to find another editor besides vi
>to work with elm.  You can't use vi, because they can read-in your waffle
>password file, as well as /etc/passwd.
>Not a good thing.
>

There are a lot of editors available for unix systems that are easier on
users than vi... (although I'm a vi freak myself). Every unix system I've
seen has allowed users to look at the password file --no user-servicable 
parts inside... :-) If the mode makes a file read-only for the public, 
yes, they can load it, they can edit it, but they can't save it. So it
doesn't really matter.

However, if you wanted to be a real go-getter, judicious use of the 
permissions, proper setting of the shell, and a number of other little
goodies can more than frustrate the would be twit-user. If that weren't
the case, there wouldn't be too much point in public *nix sites. :-)

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root@dogear.spk.wa.us                 "Tomorrow I might go as far as suicide,
Bob Kirkpatrick                        But I'm not gonna let it bother me
Dog Ear'd Systems of Spokane, WA       tonight."                       --ars