PETEHIC@UOTTAWA.BITNET (Pete Hickey) (02/02/90)
HaJo,
Your backup program is a VAP, or a special process running on the
server. When you do a backup, you talk to the VAP, not the novell
server. A cleaver programmer would be able to also write a program that
would talk to the VAP. The operations that can be done, however, depend
on the VAP. If you would let anyone install VAPs on your server, sure
a cleaver programmer could write a VAP that would let him access the
files without having logged on. You don't, however. A VAP is a *trusted*
process running on the server.
If you're familiar with Unix, try thinking in terms of a VAP as a
running with the SUID bit on. Is it secure?
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