Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!microsoft!alistair
From: alistair@microsoft.UUCP (Alistair BANKS)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2
Subject: Re: File protection in OS/2
Keywords: File Attributes`
Message-ID: <53681@microsoft.UUCP>
Date: 21 Mar 90 18:01:58 GMT
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Reply-To: alistair@microsoft.UUCP (Alistair BANKS)
Organization: Microsoft Corp., Redmond WA
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security beyond FAT (read/hidden/system/archive bits!), but
LanMan 2.0 has a version of HPFS called HPFS386 which is still
the HPFS format, but has security built into the file system - 
that is, you have to log on with a named account and password to
get access priviledges to your LOCAL disk. Those priviledges
are read, write, execute(only), change permissions, create, delete
and these permissions are applied on a per-file basis according
to your account name, and what account groups you are in.

The upshot of this is that LanMan 2.0 gives your local machine
'real' security and os/2 1.2 does not.

Alistair Banks
OS/2 Group
Microsoft