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From: peirce@claris.com (Michael Peirce)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: Public Folder Can Access Your _Entire_ HD
Message-ID: <10660@claris.com>
Date: 7 Nov 89 21:31:56 GMT
References: <367@sierra.stanford.edu>
Reply-To: peirce@claris.com (Michael Peirce)
Distribution: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Organization: Claris Corporation, Santa Clara CA
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In article <367@sierra.stanford.edu> siegman@sierra.UUCP (Anthony E. Siegman) writes:
>Haven't seen this mentioned anywhere else, but one of my grad students
>discovered that if you name your Public Folder ":" instead of
>"Public", then everyone else on your network can access _everything_
>(including _all_ the folders) on your HD.

Note: this *is* a feature.  You can set your Public folder to be ANYTHING
that's around at INIT time.  I've even set it to be an automounting AppleShare
server folder.  (It was surprisingly fast considering the AppleShare volume
was really a Sun!).

Setting your Public folder to be your whole volume is a great way to make
a copy of a Hard Disk remotely.  I know people who do this when they are
setting up a new machine and want to clone a know good system.

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