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From: austing@Apple.COM (Glenn L. Austin)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: reminder init--virus?
Message-ID: <28843@apple.Apple.COM>
Date: 12 Apr 89 17:36:27 GMT
References: <13012@dartvax.Dartmouth.EDU>
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Organization: Apple Computer Inc, Cupertino, CA
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In article <13012@dartvax.Dartmouth.EDU> boz@eleazar.dartmouth.edu (John Boswell) writes:
>. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   My problem
>is that after I istalled it and booted up, Gatekeeper tells me that it
>has foiled an attempt by "Macintalk" to violate res(self) priveledges against
>"Macintalk".

In the Gatekeeper documentation, it mentions (rather prominently, as I recall)
that *ANY* program that uses MacInTalk requires permissions to
change MacInTalk.  So yes, it is OK for MacInTalk to modify res(self).


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