On Tue, 1 Oct 2002, Andrew Hartung wrote: > I live alone and have a firewall up.
Like winter clothing, security practices work best in layers. If your computer is attached to the internet, it's never really alone. Firewalls may block certain kinds of unwanted traffic, but you never know when someone will find a hole -- all you can do is assume that, sooner or later, someone you don't want to be there will get inside. With that in mind, it's still a good idea to compartmentalize how much damage an intruder can do, and leaving in reasonable permissions -- certainly not global write access everywhere -- is a big step towards doing that. If you really want to be able to create & delete system files in the GUI, I'm sure that there are shareware tools for doing this. Seems like your options are to get used to the shell, pay for shareware, or just accept that sooner or later someone will get past your firewall and, when that happens, it will have been your main/only defence. *shrug* > The reason I want it that way is to make it easier to delete old source, > builds, etc... using the finder. ...if that's all you want to do, you can make a cron job out of it. :) -- Chris Devers [EMAIL PROTECTED] 617.929.7004 Advertising monkey Q: How do you save a drowning lawyer? A: Throw him a rock. ------------------------------------------------------- This sf.net email is sponsored by: DEDICATED SERVERS only $89! Linux or FreeBSD, FREE setup, FAST network. Get your own server today at http://www.ServePath.com/indexfm.htm _______________________________________________ Fink-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-users
