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From: brad@aero.org (Bradley A. West)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: Alias Problem ('Feature')
Keywords: alias partition
Message-ID: <1991May1.203148.27729@aero.org>
Date: 1 May 91 20:31:48 GMT
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In article <52256@apple.Apple.COM> chuq@Apple.COM (Chuq Von Rospach, only here for the beer) writes:
>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.

How did you create the alias?  If you've got a beta of sys 7, this may
be one of the incompatabilities corrected with the new version of
Silverlining everyone's been clammering about.

Brad