Re: Installing TeX at a "secure" site?

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From: fritz zaucker
Date: Fri, 14 Aug 1992 22:43

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In article <1992Aug14.184856.9432@uwm.edu> bruno@cerberus.csd.uwm.edu (Bruno Wolff III) writes:

   There are some other security issues that are relevant. While unprivileged
   software may only be able to do anything the user can do, it may do
   some stuff that he wouldn't. For instance if the user has access to
   files that he is not supposed to show to anyone, running PD
   software is a risk. 

Wasn't there a virus spread by legally sold software for the Mac?  By
the way, an older version of GNU Emacs (which is running at the site
who requested that info) installed some program as setuid root by
mistake and created a major security hole.

Fritz

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