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From: george@cornell.UUCP (George R. Boyce)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: Re: Security and defaults.
Message-ID: <28727@cornell.UUCP>
Date: 9 Jun 89 15:12:03 GMT
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Reply-To: george@cornell.UUCP (George R. Boyce)
Organization: Cornell Univ. CS Dept, Ithaca NY
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NeXT,

How about providing a shell script, "/etc/.i'm not a naive user.",
which would turn off all the appropriate setuid bits, fix all the
right file protections, turn on password protection to all the nasty
things, etc. By the time a naive user found the file and figured out
how to execute it, they would not be naive, right? This would allow
the rest of your buyers an easy way of *finding* and "correcting" all
the non-standard stuff that you have done to support the most naive of
your customers. Just an idea...

George, george@cs.cornell.edu

P.s. hee hee... how about making it a binary with a built-in quiz and
if you don't score high enough, you don't pass GO, you don't become a
unix guru.