On Tue, 29 Jul 1997, Shane wrote:
> On Tue, 29 Jul 1997, Zizazat Lazuras wrote:
> #> I'd rather just see ASCII pfiles in the stock code personally.
> Well, I personaly think ascii pfiles are a security risk. I know the box
> i code on, is NOT SECURE. I don't know alot of people who can say there
> box is totaly secure. All someone has to do is login and upload there
> file.
1.-Its a game anyway
2.-If anyone can do that (I know noone could do that in my mac nor could
it be done on Windows machines and is also difficult in properly
configured UNIX boxes) *you* have a security problem, not the mud
3.-Still, in Unix, there is something called "owners", which prevent
average joe from putting files in dangerous places and have those files
be read by any other program
4.-A user that could hack a properly configured Unix system (not sure
about Windows, 100% sure about the impossibility of doing so on my mac)
then there are *tens* of possible security holes, none of which are
really Circle problems but inherent to the system and directly
proportional to the proficiency of the sysadmin and users.
Greets
Eduo
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