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Article #39254Re: Gatekeeper Problems!!! (binhex/Stuffit/Packit)
From: Mark Nagel
Date: Tue, 14 Mar 1989 16:48
Date: Tue, 14 Mar 1989 16:48
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In article <4774@hubcap.UUCP>, jkoerbe@hubcap (jon c koerber) writes:
|was any error before--it would just produce a file called "document"--no errs).
|The culprit turned out to be an init called "Gatekeeper". This problem may
This happens because Stuffit, et. al. require file(other) permissions.
If you get the new version of Gatekeeper (1.1), you'll be able to
monitor what applications need what privileges and eventually allow it
to auto-prevent illegal accesses. In the old version, it was veto
or nothing, causing problems such as you describe. The *real* problems
are in the applications, though! GateKeeper certainly points out
where programmers were lazy in detecting file/resource errors.
Mark Nagel @ UC Irvine, Department of Information and Computer Science
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!ames!ucsd!orion.cf.uci.edu!uci-ics!blanche.ics.uci.edu From: nagel@blanche.ics.uci.edu (Mark Nagel) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac Subject: Re: Gatekeeper Problems!!! (binhex/Stuffit/Packit) Keywords: error bug dunno help Message-ID: <9189@paris.ics.uci.edu> Date: 14 Mar 89 16:48:02 GMT References: <4774@hubcap.UUCP> Sender: news@paris.ics.uci.edu Reply-To: nagel@blanche.ics.uci.edu (Mark Nagel) Organization: University of California, Irvine - Dept of ICS Lines: 16 In-reply-to: jkoerbe@hubcap.UUCP (jon c koerber)