cohen@tramp.Colorado.EDU (Matthew Cohen) (04/12/91)
I have just discovered a loophole in the security system on our macintosh network. We have four mac SE's, with an AppleTalk network to another SE. I have all of the programs on the server set for locked and copy protected. this prevents anyone from dragging anything off of the server and onto a disk. However, anyone with a copy of mactools, or other like program can still copy any documents or programs off of the (locked + protected) server disk!?!?! Is there something that I'm missing? They log in as a guest, and as a guest they have only see files privleges, no see folder or make changes priv. Mactools still can't see the folders that it isn't supposed to, but anything else is fair game. I'm using the latest appletalk version (don't know the name), and system 6.03 Matt Cohen University Of Colorado @ Boulder Residence Hall Computer Lab Assistant -- -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |****The Deathknight*****| I'm gonna stick around | REALITY is for people | |-----Matthew Cohen------| 'till I can't see straight!| who can't handle | |Cohen@Spot.Colorado.edu |--Cohen@tramp.colorado.edu--| FANTASY!!!! |
mlanett@yoyodyne.ncsa.uiuc.edu (Dr Thrasher) (04/13/91)
In article <1991Apr11.224723.3069@colorado.edu>, cohen@tramp.Colorado.EDU (Matthew Cohen) writes: > dragging anything off of the server and onto a disk. However, anyone > with a copy of mactools, or other like program can still copy any > documents or programs off of the (locked + protected) server disk!?!?! This has always been the security flaw in the Mac OS -- the file protection bits mean _nothing_. The Finder pays attention to them, but MacTools certainly doesn't. You could always disable guest login. --