Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!apple!chuq From: chuq@Apple.COM (Chuq Von Rospach, only here for the beer) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer Subject: Re: Alias Problem ('Feature') Keywords: alias partition Message-ID: <52256@apple.Apple.COM> Date: 1 May 91 18:09:30 GMT References: <1991May1.110657.19252@hellgate.utah.edu> Distribution: usa Organization: Dottie I's Private Eyes Lines: 25 u-beasth%peruvian.utah.edu@cs.utah.edu (bryant eastham) writes: > I have noticed an interesting side effect of aliases. Say that I have >a PASSWORDED partition on my hard disk (from Silverlining). I mount it and >have to type the password. I then create an alias to something on that >partition and copy it somewhere else (another partition). >I open the alias and, what >do you know! my partition returns WITHOUT TYPING THE PASSWORD! > This seems to be an incredible security hole. The only way to get the >partition NOT to come back is to reset the machine (that I know of). This sounds like a bug in SilverLining. If you do the same to an Appleshare server, it prompts for passwords. -- Chuq Von Rospach >=< chuq@apple.com >=< GEnie:CHUQ or MAC.BIGOT >=< ALink:CHUQ SFWA Nebula Awards Reports Editor =+= Editor, OtherRealms Book Reviewer, Amazing Stories ---@--- #include Recommended: ORION IN THE DYING TIME Ben Bova (Tor, Aug, ***-); SACRED VISIONS Greeley&Cassutt (Tor, Aug, ****+); MEN AT WORK George Will (****); XENOCIDE Orson Scott Card (August, ****)