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From: luke@tasis.utas.oz.au@munnari.oz (Luke Visser)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac,comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: PF Security Rumors...now the reality!
Summary: a minimal solution
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Date: 10 Nov 89 05:42:24 GMT
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Organization: Elec Eng & Comp Sci, Uni of Tasmania, Australia
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In article <3429@umiami.miami.edu> GROSS@umiami.miami.edu (Jason Gross) writes:
> Someone here mentioned some grumblings about Public Folder's security
> problems...well, here's the reality:
> 
> 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.
The solution is to change the dialog item from an editable text item to
a static text item.  This means that it cannot be modified.  This doesn't
solve the above problem but you can make the above harder by locking
(*get info* on it) and then turning it invisible (see below).

After setting the 'public folder' in Chooser open ResEdit.  Do a *get info*
on 'Public Folder' and select the invisible flag.  The prevents doing
the above *easily*.  Now open 'Public Folder', then open 'DITL' and then
open 'DITL cConfig Id = -4072'.  *Select item number* 9 and then open it,
change editable text to static text.

Luke Visser
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