Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!mcvax!hp4nl!uva!borton
From: borton@uva.UUCP (Chris Borton)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.appletalk
Subject: Re: Access Privs and CAP 5.0
Message-ID: <533@uva.UUCP>
Date: 14 Sep 88 14:17:21 GMT
References: <8809061432.AA10084@icarus.cns.syr.EDU> <833@hub.ucsb.edu>
Reply-To: borton@uva.UUCP (Chris Borton)
Organization: Faculteit Wiskunde & Informatica, Universiteit van Amsterdam
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In article <833@hub.ucsb.edu> aks@hub.ucsb.edu (Alan Stebbens) writes:
>>Does anyone KNOW how to set the priveleges in the Unix environment to
>>make an Mac application execute only?
>
>I talked with some people at UC Santa Cruz recently, and they modified the 
>CAP software (aufs) so that if a file's Unix permission is "--x", then the
>"bozo" bit is set automatically in its data resource.   I'm not sure how
>this provided copy-protection (as I didn't get into the details), but they
>seemed pretty sure that it was reliable.

Is the bozo bit now in use again under AppleShare?  That was originally set
as copy-protection against "bozos"--the Finder wouldn't copy it if this bit
were set.  However, later versions of the Finder gave up that practice (if
my memory serves me correctly).

-cbb
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Chris Borton	borton%uva@mcvax.{nl,bitnet,uucp} 
Rotary Scholar, University of Amsterdam CS