Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!samsung!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!uc!cs.umn.edu!ux.acs!clarson From: clarson@ux.acs.umn.edu (Chaz Larson) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc Subject: Re: Resedit and FileGuard Message-ID: <1938@ux.acs.umn.edu> Date: 2 Aug 90 15:52:09 GMT References: <43434@apple.Apple.COM> Reply-To: clarson@ux.acs.umn.edu (Chaz Larson) Organization: Iron City, USA Lines: 23 >In article jg23+@andrew.cmu.edu (John Robert Gray) writes: >Hi, I have a real big problem. I got FileGuard 2 month ago and now I found >that resedit is able to delete every resource in FileGuard, which makes >FileGuard >useless because it's a security software. Is there a way I can make it so >resedit is unable to delete the resources in FileGuard? You could lock the file, but a ResEdit user could change that. A more important question, so far as I'm concerned, is: -Why in the world is ResEdit openly available on a supposedly "secure" machine? RessEdit can be used to effectively gut _any_ software on the Mac. -- ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ "Must think...bubble pipe will relax me and I think..." - Flaming Carrot clarson@ux.acs.umn.edu AOL:Crowbone