Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!samsung!uunet!usaos!wsrcc.com!wolfgang From: wolfgang@wsrcc.com (Wolfgang S. Rupprecht) Newsgroups: comp.unix.internals Subject: Re: Preventing date rollback Message-ID: <1990Dec16.213421.2481@wsrcc.com> Date: 16 Dec 90 21:34:21 GMT References: <1959@necisa.ho.necisa.oz> <1990Dec11.125711.1468@scuzzy.in-berlin.de> <2091@risky.Convergent.COM> Distribution: comp Organization: Wolfgang S Rupprecht Computer Consulting, Washington DC. Lines: 17 scott@convergent.com (Scott Lurndal) writes: >If I load an executable, it would be loaded under uid/gid bin with >read only access. Therefore the program cannot be altering itself. >If it tries, too bad, I don't need any software package that badly. > >If it is going around mucking about in any file not supplied as part >of the software package, no self-respecting system administrator will >want it installed on his system. Oh it gets worse than that... I have seen packages for CAD design that want one to recompile vmunix to include some "special" license enforcing *object* code from that company. Yea, right. -wolfgang -- Wolfgang Rupprecht wolfgang@wsrcc.com (or) uunet!wsrcc!wolfgang Snail Mail Address: Box 6524, Alexandria, VA 22306-0524