Re: reminder init--virus?

Article View: comp.sys.mac

Article #40743

#40743

From: Glenn L. Austin
Date: Wed, 12 Apr 1989 17:36

18 lines
1517 bytes

In article <13012@dartvax.Dartmouth.EDU> boz@eleazar.dartmouth.edu (John Boswell) writes:
>. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   My problem
>is that after I istalled it and booted up, Gatekeeper tells me that it
>has foiled an attempt by "Macintalk" to violate res(self) priveledges against
>"Macintalk".

In the Gatekeeper documentation, it mentions (rather prominently, as I recall)
that *ANY* program that uses MacInTalk requires permissions to
change MacInTalk.  So yes, it is OK for MacInTalk to modify res(self).


-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
| Glenn L. Austin             | The nice thing about standards is that      | 
| Apple Computer, Inc.        | there are so many of them to choose from.   | 
| Internet: austing@apple.com |       -Andrew S. Tanenbaum                  |
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
| All opinions stated above are mine -- who else would want them?           |
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------

Technical Details

Message-ID: <28843@apple.Apple.COM>

Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!ames!oliveb!apple!austing

References: <13012@dartvax.Dartmouth.EDU>

Show Full Headers

Complete Article Headers

Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!ames!oliveb!apple!austing
From: austing@Apple.COM (Glenn L. Austin)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: reminder init--virus?
Message-ID: <28843@apple.Apple.COM>
Date: 12 Apr 89 17:36:27 GMT
References: <13012@dartvax.Dartmouth.EDU>
Distribution: comp.sys.mac comp.sys.mac.programmer
Organization: Apple Computer Inc, Cupertino, CA
Lines: 19

Reply to Parent Message