🚀 go-pugleaf

In article <1189@smurf.ira.uka.de> urlichs@smurf.ira.uka.de (Matthias Urlichs) writes:
>In comp.sys.mac.programmer luke@tasis.utas.oz.au@munnari.oz (Luke Visser)
>writes:
>< In article <3429@umiami.miami.edu> GROSS@umiami.miami.edu (Jason Gross) writes:
>< > Someone walked in one day and put their version of PF on all the student
>< > Macs and all the staffworker's Macs.  They set the path on each PF to the
>< > hard drive's root directory effectively letting the person steal everything
>< > off of a hard drive.
>< 
>< Ok here's a solution that not a perfect one but one that certainly
>< eases my mind and makes changing the 'public folder' somewhat harder.
>< [...]
>< (*get info* on it) and then turning it invisible (see below).
>< 
>Which will also stop Public Folder from working altogether.
>INIT31 skips any invisible file because of possible viruses lurking therein.

Right.  Also, what does hiding PF accomplish?  You can't access it from
the Finder, but who cares?  You can still reach it from the Chooser.  If
you hide it from the Finder and the Chooser, I'd say you might as well
throw the thing out.

I don't understand what the real problem is here.  I can write an INIT
that reboots your computer, erases the drive, etc.  I walk up to your
machine, drop in the INIT, and walk away.  If you don't have physical
security for your machine, you definately cannot expect internal security.
This isn't a multiuser system with passwords, etc.

If you can't control outside users dropping things into your System folder,
then think about some sort of password utility that comes up when you
boot, or a DA password utility that locks the machine up until you get
back, or locking your room.

-Justin
vallon@sbcs.sunysb.edu